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Loving the nurgle cannoneer! Lovely texture on the green armour, very nice

And yep, that's proppa old-skool is what that is


I assumed the mutant just had a wierd fetish for phallic puppetry.

The Nurgle guy is great, the gun actually looks quite good for its age. I think you dialed in the mix of Nurgle grossness and crisp lines rather well!

That Nurgle marine is spot-on weety! Great work!

The Nurgle guy is sweet, your not doing me any favours, i'm trying to keep away from Papa N for the time being.

A supply drop from mister G. splitta

The marine is getting painted and posted back to fight with gits inquisitorial squad.

Every time I see those old Eldar helmets, the face grill makes me thing of The MAXX. Every. Time.

weetyskemian44 wrote:A supply drop from mister G. splitta

The marine is getting painted and posted back to fight with gits inquisitorial squad.

Seeing the Wraithlord laid out like that makes me want to build one so that it is knock-kneed and has glasses...and maybe a pocket protector.

Um...is that Eldar shooting the marine in the head? Gits is gonna get back a slightly damaged Sphess Marine.

Loved the Maxx chemical cutthroat. Watched the film like 5 times.

The Space marine has very waxy ears so the eldar has kindly agreed to unblock them for him.

Digging today at the allotment and uncovered the most enormous boulder. We've begun to raise it up with levers and blocks of wood but I wish we could explode it or something. But only terrorists get to use explosives these days so its levers for us. Maybe we will light a fire on it tommorow and crack it, sounds like fun!. Hands are too tired to paint now.


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Pic with man-feet to show scale



Oh I also got some more scouts today - they are in the stripper - Monkeytroll is totally right, fairy powerspray is much nicer than dettol and it works better

What are you doing in the allotment - practicising trench warfare? I'm fairly sure carrots don't need that sort of depth.

*Insert joke regarding strippers and insertions here*

Seeing these minis with a fresh coat of paint lets me take a big sigh of relief. All too often, these paint-clogged models have some amazing stuff underneath them, a fact you prove time and time again!

hmmm... got tow wraithlords still unused in my drawer... will be interesting to see what you do with that one... planned to do something with them for months...

yup...big boulder...check^^... will give a nice satisfaction to have this one out of the soil...one you have it out of the soil...^^

Nice job getting the gunky paint offa those eldar weety. I am genuinely looking forward to seeing you give them some TLC.

Monkeytroll - you gotta have a good depth if you want really really big carrots... We are doing it extra well because we might enter the local giant vegetable competition!

Thanks comander cain - its one of my favorite things to strip off a really thick paintjob and see what lies beneath

Von dom - get em out! It can be quite hard to decide on a paint scheme for eldar though as you basically have the whole rainbow tho choose from.
It will be immensely satisfying to remove the boulder because it proves that we aren't just useless modern humans who can only press buttons. Also its the biggest one I have found so far!

Cheers gits - they actually looked quite good with their thick basic paintjobs - nice choice of colous I thought - one of them appeared to be painted in humbrol enamel paint, which amazingly came off in one sheet like a robe. Fairy powerspray - maybe there is a cheaper generic that will do the same thing?

Here are the scouts I got - 99p each! Bargain.

They look like later models than my other scouts, they have a greater standardization of armour and weapons and the style looks later. But they all appear together in the 1991 catalogue. The older looking ones had no slotta's when I bought them so I can't check.

If you're referring to the single eldar model... I painted that with acrylics myself. Probably (given it's age) with Poly-s paints, then followed by a couple of layers of gloss coat to protect it. Not sure about the dread as that was picked up off e-bay.

Musta been the gloss coat that made me think of enamel paint.

I quite liked the luminous green grass he was standing on - wish I had a pic now

I have plenty more where that came from.

really like that scout on the left , I always wanted him.

The scout on the right looks painfully constipated. Probably due to his severely deformed torso. I had those same scouts as a kid, but I ended up chopping em to pieces for conversions and now their bolters serve my assault marines and I think one of the heads got transplanted onto a RT tactical marine, lol.

Now I had always thought that power armour has some kind of nappy device inside... Maybe the same goes for scout armour and he is having a personal moment... Or perhaps he is clenching in the hope of finding a suitable bush soon!

I should have a nice space marine librarian ready for perusal later. He is looking pretty good but needs detail work. Going to be more subtle than my previous librarians (less shocking orange).

Next 2 weeks I am doing Jury Service!! So I may be a mite busy for much dakka or painting. Also can't tell anyone the juicy details till after the cases have all been dealt with. Its very exciting though.

Congratulations, it's...an old man! Have a cigar!

You've lost me...?


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Oh wait... I get it now!

I'm sure I can get some better shots of this but these aren't bad - very pleased with the paintjob, I spent a good few hours on this one. I seem to have forgotten his backpack...

I had that librarian!! Very neat figure! Nice work weety... you should be proud.

Heh! His face makes me think that some of the scouts didn't turn their homework in on time, or maybe they were shooting bolt pistols in the Library.

That's a cool mini and a super paint up.

Great stuff, i adore that Librarian, really interesting miniature!

Have been meaning to ask, have you painted hazard stripes/chevrons on bases before? A la classic Necromunda style, i don't remember seeing an example in your blog. I'm not sure where to start because obviously the stripes will have to taper towards the top, i'd like to mark it with miniature masking tape but i wouldn't know how to apply it.
Thanks in advance for any advice!

brilliant looking libirian! very good painting-fu here...

tho i have to act like a jerk again...i see two mold lines on each gauntlet...but fixing this would ruin the paintjob...so i should have better shut my gob i think...

Very faint mould lines mr von dom - I think I will have to leave them.

LostSoulCasey'sLaw - I'm afraid I have never done chevrons on a base before - and if I did I would probably do them freehand as I am inclined to do... I'm sure someone else has a clue though...?

Cheers JB - He does have a very sour face doesn't he - Looks like a grumpy teacher I remember.

The pictures aren't quite doing him justice - tried to take more today but they all came out blurry. I think its my particular choice of background for this one that has my camera confused.



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Also good news - a certain plastic scout arrived in the post today - Thanks inmygravenimage!

He's fantastic - so much attitude in that face! Love the GS work on that scout from the previous page as well - totally fits the older (better! ) artwork for scouts. Your blog is one of my favourites, Weety, you never disappoint

weetyskemian44 wrote:LostSoulCasey'sLaw - I'm afraid I have never done chevrons on a base before - and if I did I would probably do them freehand as I am inclined to do... I'm sure someone else has a clue though...?

Guess it was a long shot! I'd try free handing it if it wasn't for my selective OCD, i really feel the need for the measurements to be right for this.