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mmm, festering sores...

Festering sores is the look I'm going for...

getting back down to a bit of painting today - The prototype scavy is done. I'm pleased with his look - they will make a great gang or nurgle cultist squad.

"Oh mah gawd dat tung!"

That's grimace inducing.

But pretty awesome. I've never seen that model before.

... insert obligatory Gene Simmons reference.

Old three arm was one of a small line of "mutant" scavies (more mutated than the rest); there was a guy with an enormous hand, a dude with spines growing out of his back and this chap.

Well having made a start I might just get the squad done before I run out of steam. More jury service tomorrow and then my family are visiting so I probably won't. Gotta keep the mother and father happy in case I should need a loan...

I'm kidding of course.

He looks great and rather yucky at the same time.

I failed to notice that he had three arms the first two times that I looked at him. Power of observation - FAIL.

I can imagine the loan request.

"Mum, Dad, I need a loan. My 80's and 90's era figure collection still isn't complete..."

Nice work as always, Weety.

Hey Weety, I came across some Spyrer figs that need stripped and repainted if you are interested, PM me

Couldn't get on the internet for a while there. Had to wait to get paid... The first sign of hard times when these little 'essential' luxuries can't be afforded.

JB forewarned is forearmed - or maybe three-armed.

Cheers all - my output has slowed down a bit recently... I have plenty of time but I need to recharge the creative batteries.

Nice to have you back weety!

Looking great. Old models like these really should be redone and brought up to date on their paint jobs. Good job man i hope you come up with some new ideas and get them posted.

Thanks papa piggy - i like your trailer trash avatar.

a marine for gitsplitta;

I decided to go imperial fists for this one, felt like painting something yellow for a change - he's not finished yet but he looks OK from the front. Gotta get some insignia on there too.

Nice shading on that marine! Some insignia and he is perfect.

The imperial fist is looking very nice so far weety, I like how you've done the weathering on him.

That's perfect weety! Thank you. Excellent choice of chapter too.

Well its been two weeks - And I finally got the guts to attempt to freehand an imperial fists icon - and it was damned fiddly

As I was saying last time I haven't really been in a painting mood - lots of hard, demeaning till work, sore feet and repetitive strain injury followed by being too tired to hold the models steady. I swear I'm going to take my own stool into work one of these days - its inhuman to have to stand up straight for 6 hours at a time. But enough of my griping. Here is the finished marine for gitsplitta's special squad.

Nice freehand, weety.

Now that's great Weety.... well worth the wait!

Cheers! Hopefully this might get me going again - but then there are always times with any fun activity where you just need a nice long break or it won't be fun anymore. I'll see just how I feel later, maybe I will paint something random.

Or maybe I will read lain Banks' new sci-fi book "surface detail" Bound to be another complex jewel of a book. His sci-fi concepts always go one step beyond into a world we can barely recognize, a sex, drugs and rock n roll space opera where planets and stars are engineered to suit purpose and occasionally destroyed by sentient space going vessels the size of small countries. Where death is truly not the end because they have the technology to create heaven or simply be reborn.

But when your government administrates the afterlife, how long till they construct a hell?

weetyskemian44 wrote:But when your government administrates the afterlife, how long till they construct a hell?

I'd assume they already have - and criminals guilty of certain crimes would be executed and consigned there for a defined period.

I also have surface detail sitting waiting to be read. I found the ending of matter utterly disappointing though, but am assured that this is more of an Algebraist in the quality stakes.
/OT

Nice fist, too! How are you for old school figs just now, anyway?

I think I still have an uncertain number waiting to be painted. A real mixed bag of things too - Sometimes an excess of choice hinders me in making up my mind what to paint though.

I liked matter - but the ending had a certain abruptness.

Dystartes - Its probably some complicated metaphor for the prison system and the nature of state tyranny. Bound to entertain me.

Oh Banks... his stuff is such a great read, I'm glad I discovered it.

I definitely love the naming convention for the Culture Ships. It's one of my favorite things and radically changed the way I name Capital ships from now on.

The GSV "Size Isn't Everything" is one of my fav names

Others I like:

Big Sexy Beast
Frank Exchange Of Views
God Told Me To Do It
Resistance Is Character-Forming

I'm afraid I chose to read instead of paint...

I think my favorite one so far has been...

"All The Same, I Saw It First"

Lulz.

I wish he would have a crippling car crash near my isolated homestead so I can kidnap him and make him write faster.

Only kidding

'Misery' much?

Just need to photoshop a pic of your avatar's head over the classic image of whats-her-name with the sledgehammer...

Nice job on Marine McFist of the Fisty Chapter there

Surface detail was very cool. Think my favourite Banks scene is from Excession, where there's a couple of drones exchanging ever more ridiculous Ship names.

Yep kudos on the freehand weets, Never read any space opera sci fi .. haven't really found anything i enjoyed reading for a long while , got bored with Gaiman's small gods , although I am a long time fan of his work ,tried P.K. Dick , and was quite impressed , then found a compendium of sci fi , with an intro by Mr C. Clarke , Loved that , I think I like short stories .. no patience for the epics ;-) .. really enjoyed the classics like Orwell and Robert A. Heinlein and Huxley , maybe i should try them again ..

tried some Jorge Luis Borges stuff a while back but it left me cold ..

would you recommend Ursula le guin's work ? I remember you selling off some stuff a while back .

sorry for the ramble ..
found a nice list of would be contenders for me..

http://www.amazon.co.uk/All-Time-Classic-Sci-Novels/lm/QP3UJ0EBT3NV

Weety, I have a question for you...do you approach painting female skin differently than male skin? I mean, I know a lot depends on the sculpted features of the model and all, but just curious...

Dstiengass - yes I suppose I do - I would give the skin tone a smoother thicker finish with less of the underlying grey tones showing through. Also its important to give eyes eyeliner and lips a touch of gloss.

Neil - I would recomend ursula - she writes very profoundly - her sci-fi is sublime. Maybe a little pretentious at times. She also does fantasy and does it well.

Read Heinlein's "Starship Troopers" the other day - Its very philosophical and most of the novel seems set in boot camp but is excellent for all that. I'm not sure I'd like to live in a universe where only ex-military are allowed to vote or run for office...

Thanks monkey! Good to see you back - I may be gone for a while myself as they keep raising my hours in work and I want to milk it while it lasts. Excession is probably the best one and isn't so heavy that you can't read it in the bath...

Definitely misery chemical cutthroat - recommend reading the book it is so much nastier than the film