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This is awesome. Your painting style really drives home the brutal aspect of living in this universe. I am quite taken with the Arbites specifically.

Well, finally dipped my toe into the potential rabbit hole of Necromunda proper... No full gangs to speak of yet, but I bought a sprue each of Escher and Goliath to play around with, see how I got on ect. More thoughts on the kits below, but pics first, a test paint for House Escher.

I stuck fairly close to the studio scheme to be honest, even trying to replicate the more pastel colours that some of the GW ones have, I think it's come out fairly well for a first attempt. Strong colours work better here than on a lot of what I paint, and I don't think there's too much clashing going on between them.


Very fun to paint, so expect more soon.

As for the kits themselves, Escher win this one hands-down. Building them, I had a hard time deciding which of the many possible parts to use, building the Goliath I had an equally hard time actually finding parts that fitted. I appreciate the more muscular Gothiath are going to be restricted in their posing by what looks natural, but even then, it was hard to vary the poses much beyond the stock ones, whereas all the girls in the Escher set could have been put together completely differently if I'd wanted.

Ultimately, I'm waiting on those very nice Van Saar models, but in the mean time, I may well bring the Escher up to gang strength. Some of my DnD group also play Necro, so I might even be able to get some games in over the summer.

That's all for now! Thanks for looking, stay tuned for more Escher, more Arbites and some Goliath over the coming couple of weeks!

These look gorgeous. I think you’ve dove a great job of combining the bright, strong colours with an overall grim vibe

She looks very cool. Looking forward to more Necromunda.

Oooh doggy! that Escher is perfect! your gritty style which suits the underhive and the grim darkness of the 40K universe marries well with the Necromunda models and seeing the bright scheme of Escher dulled down 'n dirty looks great! i'll be keen to see more.

Man those Arbites look cool, and I can only concur with the others on how well the escher's colour scheme works in your style of painting.

Also, I'm just waiting for the day you do another eldar model. I've still got your Harlequin-corsair on my background rotation

Thanks all! Bit more Necromunda today, another Escher and the first Goliath.


Pretty much same as the last one here, same kinds of colours, textures and patterns. Putting the two together, they are already looking quite striking, so the full gang should have the desired effect.



I took a somewhat opposite (and more familiar) approach with the Goliath. Rough metalwork, dark armour plating, limited array of colours as I want the two gangs to look very distinct. Still vastly prefer the Escher models from both a modelling and painting perspective, but I'll soldier on with these guys at least for the time being.


@Ynneadwraith: No Eldar on the table for the time being, I'm afraid! And to be honest, your projects absolutely nail the style of Eldar I like seeing, and I'd definitely fall short of what your superb conversions have achieved!


More soon, thanks for looking, do let me know what you reckon!

Ooh, Grimsexydark. Love it, mate. The only thing I might niggle with is that the bases are a bit, I don't know, clean? But the gangers are the mutt's nuts.

That's fair, I must admit I wasn't quite sure to do with those sculpted bases beyond just painting the detail that was already there. I may well revising them once the gang is done, spice them up a bit.

Alternatively, hazard them up?

Great stuff Para love the Goliath

That Goliath ganger is awesome, I used to run a Juve with a giant spiked club that put the fear of the almighty in opponents, until they realized at weapon skill 2 and one attack he wasn't all that much of a threat. Poor guy died far too often to be worth it, but one day I had envisaged he would become what you painted above which unfortunately never happened.

It has been a while! I blame the last few incredibly hectic weeks of uni, but that's done now and hopefully I can get back into the swing of things a bit. I've painted a bit over the last couple of months, so here's a bit of a catch up.

First we have the whole Escher gang as submitted to the Monthly Challenge, these girls actually scored me my first win there which was awesome!


Next, the only model I actually got painted in May, and again my challenge entry (though it didn't do quite so well! ), a repaint of my Broodlord in a monochrome, insect-like scheme. Bit of a rush job, but he certainly looks better than he used to and I like the scheme even if the execution leaves a bit to be desired.


And finally, on to this month's entry, Predators from Prodos' doomed Kickstarter which are nonetheless really nice minis. Here's the first one of three:



That's all for now, hopefully regular updates will resume shortly. In the mean time, thanks for looking, any thoughts welcome!

You've earned the accolades Paradigm... those Escher are most excellent indeed. Love the predator too. Nice work!

Cheers Gits!

First of all, congrats on your graduation! That's a good feeling, being done with school, huh? Those minis turned out really well too, especially the Eschers (a well-deserved win in the challenge). I look forward to seeing the Predators all done, as that is one of my favorite series of movies.

Last time I checked your blog was a couple of years ago and you were damn good then, but the progress is mindblowing. The gangers and broodlord look amazing. I especially like the colour contrasts on the Escher ladies.

Ta chaps. The remaining Preds are done, but frustratingly my camera is deciding to have issues (not reading the SD card properly, and its internal storage holds 2 pics at a time so that's a no-go... ), so pics will have to wait a bit. Hopefully not long though, as I think they've come out rather nicely. It really is a shame the AvP KS had so many issues, as in a vacuum these are actually very, very nice minis and I'd definitely be open to getting more from the range, but it seems it's dead in the water these days with very limited stock in the first place.

@Zerg: Not quite done with uni just yet, I'm going back in September to do a Masters in Intelligence and Security Studies (AKA Spy Stuff )... It is nice to draw a line under the degree itself though, the last year especially was fairly intensive! With any luck I can get back into the swing of painting over the summer though, I have missed it with the limited time I've had.

@Da Boss: Nice to see you drop in again! Thanks for the kind words. I do like the higher contrast on the Eschers, somewhat different to the usual way I do things and I might have a bit more of a play with it if I can find some suitable models.

I like the Broodlord. Solid work on a solid model. Love seeing a Predator, too. Prodos does make good models and it is too bad they sullied their rep so completely.

Honestly, I think Eschers are made for your painting style

Please tell me you'll be doing Cawdors when they come out. Can't wait to see some done in your style

Thanks guys!

@Ynneadwraith: To be honest, the Cawdor look like great models technically speaking but they don't really inspire me; aside from the new weapons (which are admittedly rather glorious, especially the giant crossbow thingy) there didn't seem to be much about them that we haven't seen before with things like Chaos Cultists. That may change once some more pics emerge and I see what some other painters can do with them, but for the moment they're not doing much for me. I do intend to get some Van Saar at some point, but I should probably finish my remaining Goliaths and Enforcers first...

In other news, the camera seems to have stopped playing silly buggers and is reading the SD card properly now (despite nothing having been done to it, it just started working again... praise be to the Omnissiah's mysteries) so stay tuned for more Predator action shortly.

As promised, the remaining Predators:






Not sure what's up next, I am a little tempted to grab some Prodos Aliens/Marines to go with these if I can find any in stock at a decent price!

Thanks for looking, any thoughts welcome!

Really outstanding work Paradigm. Love them!

Magnificent.

I would love to see your take on a Predalien or the Alien king or queen.

I do like those Predators.

Damn fine work on those preds chap, very nice.

Very nice, although when I saw the blog title I thought, "Ooh, I'd like to see how you do tanks."

Epic job on the predators brother!

Cheers all!

@Graven: The answer to that question is 'rarely'! Anything bigger than a Dreadnought I tend to baulk at. Never say never though, I've got a Leman Russ I occasionally think about doing something cool with.

Managed to track down a set of Aliens/Colonial Marines (think I got the last one of each in stock at that particular store!) so hopefully next week the AvP stuff should return.

Awesome work as usual Para