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I really like your painting style as well, it has a certain, wholesome and grubbiness to it, we'd never ask you to change either

Quite the forum love going on in the new year, its a nice change

@Knightley - In response to you saying I have a painting style with "wholesomeness" I give you a readhead ogress with mustard on her tit.

@WHALEMOD360 - Can I say tit? Don't ban me, oh mighty Mod. You used to be cool...



This little lady is a unit filler for my Empire army I got painted up. To those of you who aren't in in the WHFB lingo, what that means is that you aren't actually seeing an ogre with a mustard stain on her dress. That is actually 4 human beings equipped with whatever weapons the dudes around her are equipped with.

I had a fun time painting this model. I have been looking for an excuse to paint her since she came out.

The mustard stain actually came from accidentally getting some fleshtone on the red dress. I looked at it and thought, "You can't really tell." Then realized that the "you" is me, so it's probably rather obvious to everyone else. Rather than attempt to match the tone of the highlight, which I wouldn't do-voila. She also has some in the corner of her mouth.
"Um, excuse me...um...you have a...."
"WHAT?!?"
"Nevermind..."

If only for this picture, I am glad I painted the boots. Typically for a WHFB figure, you can just skip anything below the knees.

So, pictorial proof that moonpie can still put paint to model. This is courtesy of the GW WillowLake store, where I entered it into something for a contest and where she resides in the display case as 4 Greatswords.

Next up: Dude. Harlequins. Dude.

Thanks for another project, GW! You guys are the W0RST!

Very nice Moonpie. I especially like the rolling pin. Its good to see you fully embracing your sloppy painting style and painting sloppy people. I suggest more man eaters in your future!

Really really sharp, moonpie.

Im actually really curious to see you tackle some harlequins

@Ice - If anyone knows sloppy, it's me. I need to get the pic of the Ogre Paymaster up here. I liked that one.

@Ramos - Thanks, brother. I am curious to see me tackle harlequins as well... Dunno. We'll see!

Mustard.... Tits(referring to birds here btw - Directed at mods) and Harlequins.... overjoyed is my current emotion right now.

Birds.. ha. Does birds mean chicks in NZ like it does in UK?

Anyways, I have some serious advice and discussion to wrench out of ya'll re: colors(or colours for nonMericans).

So...harlies...what to do? My first inclination is to paint each and every one singularly with its own color scheme ala the way it was old skool. I want to do some stripes, checkers and fancy diamonds, because I apparently hate myself. But, what colors should I use? Also, should I have colors for a whole squad, a whole army, just for individuals?

Do I do contrasts? Do I do complements? Harmonies?

I was considering Orange Purple and Green, because it is the opposite of the primaries I use to paint my empire, but purple is really a bugaboo color for me. I just always think I am doing it wrong, and I don't enjoy looking at it or painting it, or particularly acknowledging its existence.

The paint splatter in the newest WD has a purple that is shown as Screamer Pink washed with Nuln Oil and then edge highlighted with Slaanesh Grey, but that really can't be all can it? And Screamer Pink is actually purple? WTF? I did not know that and if it is, then why is it called pink?

My head hurts.

Also, I am not doing white masks. I don't like that look. So, if I don't do that, then what to do? Gold? I dig the bling fo obvs, but that doesn't work with every other color.

I also want to do pink and yellow, cause they are my favie colors, but The Fools have that down and do I really want to just replicate that color scheme on another set of dudes minus any irony at all?

You provoke existential crises, Harlequins. I hate you and love all at once.

If any of you who have all the proper nombre of rods and cones in your eyes could give your opinions and observations I would be grateful.

Interesting choice for the harlies, if I were to do it I would have one unifying pattern across them all, such as a black and white cross hatch design that features on one panel/clothing.

Regarding the mask, thats a tough one, I would change it up between gold/bronze/silver/tin.

Ummmm mustard!

I agree with Knightly.. at least some peice that ties them together.

@Solar: Yeah, makes you a little hungry, huh?

I think if I had an ogre army I would have to snack the whole time I played. Same as I drink and bark when I play my Wolves!

So, the GW store had a box of the finecast Harlies. I picked it up. At first I thought they were good casts, but turns out they were pretty awful. Bubblefest central. Oh well. I didn't fix them because that sort of thing is my least favorite hobbyness in the planet.

I cleaned them up as best as I could and there isn't much you could see from tabletop distance. I have them pretty well put together. I lost one pair of legs, cause I suck. The legless torso will make a different looking troupe leader for me, so it works out.

I primed up 5 of them. 2 are painted already. 1 is on the way. For all my thought and talk, my paint scheme so far has been: "Hmmm... now this color. Now this color. How about this color?"

So, not much to unify them I guess. The shoulder pads, flip belts are all gold. The masks are gold and bone based white.
Otherwise, there is every single color of the rainbow.

I think the Escher I painted up last year helped some. I had Ice take a picture, so I'll post that to give something of an idea.



I've been painting while listening to audiobooks on the lappytappy. This is 100,000% better than painting with the boob tube on. I've got the Joe Abercrombie books-the First Law trilogy going on.



This guy I painted for Ice is an example of what happens when I make up my own color schemes attempting to use color theory. I'm going to try to bring them over to Ice's to show him tomorrow for Pathfinder tonight. Don't promise pictures, because it can get hectic and they have a fortress overrun by ogres to clear out.

Having fun though.

You seen those jetbikes?

Very nice indeed. Your gang looks very Harlequinish. I approve.

I still love that orange/red split scheme. Looks awesome!

Escher's are definitely in the Harlequin direction, so you're in the right mindset. Im looking forward to seeing how you did the Harlies!

Eschers are good. However .. consider.... all white Harlies with gold bling and tiger or Leopard/fur trimmings. See where this is going? oh... and big hats..

These are my first Harlies.
These are finecast old ones I just got a week ago.





This is me tough facing with my new sprues:


I'm going to have to figure out a way to work unicorns into the mix with these thug ballerinas.

Brought to you by Joe Abercrombie's First Law trilogy on audiobook, unicorns, and the great state of Indiana.

Taken at the GW store.

Sloppy and Rainbow! It begins!

Nicely painted, those. Looking forward to seeing your artistry on the new sprues!

Very nice, moonpie. Picked up some Harlies myself. Hope to get some time to paint them.....

I get a very "why so serious" vibe from that second one

Harlies look awesome, man. The pinstriping on 2 and 3 looks good, but that diamond pattern on 1 looks just awesome! Nice work.

Very much looking forward to your touch on the new sprues.

Thanks for the views and the comments.

Working with the plastic kits is cool.

Hmm, that patterning certainly does not look sloppy, me thinks you are trying to buck your new blorg title already

The diamonds and stripes are very very good, I had to look twice at the diamonds as I though it was part of the model, but no, you hand painted them on


Oh and edited your title on this reply

That's very kind of you, Knightley. The angle of the pictures is well chosen. Towards the back the pattern breaks down slightly... I just threw some shade on it. Nothing to see here folks. It gets wonky where the leg bends. Confusing and all. Just kind of follow intuition and hope for the best... The stripes turned out better than I had hoped. The key to that was for sure my brush cleaner, which gets the MVP award for this venture. I used it as much for these three guys as I had for my last 30.

Speaking of painting 30 guys, I am wondering if this has been so exciting to me due to still having loads of State Troops to bang out.

But whatever, man. Plastic harlies are their own reason. No need for an excuse.

As an update, I just built all 6 of the box I just picked up. I just couldn't stop. Excited to have only one more day of work, before my "weekend" off. TGIM.

I came up with an idea for painting the Skyweavers I have yet to buy. I think it would look cool to do stripes or chevrons in rainbows.

I'm just wondering how many other units they are going to come out with. I have cool ideas for future models, but I would like to see what all I have to work with. Heck, we haven't even gotten an HQ yet. The Starweaver is going to have to happen, vehicle or no-I will paint it. Oh yes, I will paint it.

2 Harlies painted and sealed. New plastic ones. 2 near completion. 2 with not much work at all, really.

Not really able to batch paint too much. I paint a color on one or two at a time, but I can't go too far or I'll forget what color I am painting if I go back to it.

I'm going to get the codex before I go too crazy getting more. Want to see what I am really getting into.

I hear the Codex is delayed due to the Union stike on the East coast.

@Solar: Please tell me you are joking...

2 more Harlies are completed. Bam! I have the old Harlequin image from WD as motivation:

Also, to all of you who are complaining about Fifty Shades...

I WORK AT A MOVIE THEATER!

I weep.

I have that boxed set.

Nice. I used to have some of those. Might have to hit ebay.....

GW web site says the codex ships March 7. Pretty much everything coming in on the West Coast is delayed. Not sure if this is affecting the models, but my FLGS didn't have the Skyweavers this week....

Yeah, apparently that is the truth.. Crapola.

You poor poor bugger, all those middle aged mothers going in to see "that" movie.....

We did over 15,000 people this weekend with the majority going to 50 shades and I had 0 problems with any of them.

Everyone else and everyone I work with including my boss...not so lucky.

You "did" them??!! I am impressed by your stamina.

If you're still struggling with mask schemes then this link may help; http://www.funfx.com/masks_1.aspx