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As part of my new year's reflections on the past I decided to start cutting into the unpainted figs I have piled up in my garage. I decided to paint these figs not related to any army project in between the longer projects, with aim to try new things and get my painting speed up.

First mini painted is the Ostlander handgunner. The Ostlander is a old fig I bought when the 7th Edition of Fantasy Battle came out with plans to paint a army to the colors of Ostland. I just couldn't get the scheme working. A while ago in GW's site had a tale of four gamers where one was using this scheme to paint the troops and I decided to try it for this fig. I tried to paint him in decent time and not get stuck on details, which I succeeded in doing.

weetyskemian44 wrote:good stuff. I love random mini threads from a good painter.

Thanks!

I hope I can keep this project up and going, so far it's been working well it's 14th of Jan and I haven't yet touched my army projects this year . Next up is Blood Angel Librarian or Ork Big Mek, which has been WiP almost 3 years now I think. Time to finish that one.

On another forum people started a challenge of getting 600 points of warhammer fantasy painted during 3 months. I decided to participate with my unpainted Empire, I have couple of boxes of them that I bought in the early days of 7th edition. First figs to have the pleasure of participating in the challenge are these handgunners. They are from the same set as the first fig, I guess they are from 4th or 5th edition starter set originally. Age is starting to show on these figs, but they look decent painted up. Same scheme as the handgunner in the first post, these just have less layers of highlight applied.





Next I'm going to paint warpriest along with 10 crossbowmen.

Scrazza wrote:They are looking good! Well done .

Thanks!

These are nice change in pace as I'm trying to get to army painting mode for the first time in over 5 years. I have been playing Warmachine, Hordes and Confrontation these past years and have not painted whole units of figs at a time since I painted my 40k armies during 3rd edition and WHFB orcs and Khemri during 6th. It has been a bit hard to let go of individual figs and concentrate on units instead. I hope I can keep this up at least for the coming couple of months, I still have units of crossbows, swords and greatswords along with couple of heroes. Anyway these are nice diversion from the Skorne I'm painting as they are painted to much higher standard and those figs have more detail to paint.

Ambull wrote:Great color scheme and very nicely resolved figures overall. I love this kind of stuff! Looking forward to pics of the crossbowmen.

Very nice bases on these figs as well.

Thanks Ambull, the bases are pretty basic as I'm not going to spend too much time on them for the whole army. They are just drybrushed with lighter browns until the static grass was applied. After the static grass the whole base along with the grass was drybrushed with bone to tie it all together. Drybrushing makes the grass look more natural and down to earth and at the same time adds a element to tie the base together.

Next up for the Empire is the Warrior Priest of Sigmar. He was painted to match the state troopers, but a bit more attention was spent to paint the details. The gold metallics were an experiment, as I painted them with gold mixed with progressively lighter brown added to the paint. The result was ok and I will probably continue using that way of painting metallics where I need worn metal look.

bunnygurl wrote:Looks great! My fav parts are the skin and cape. The gold kicks backside too.

Thanks bunny, I tried something new with the cape. I have avoided painting yellow for a long time, but now I found a great way of painting it without having to paint multiple coats so I'm going to have a lot more of yellow in the future.

Mister Feral wrote:Ooh I dig, both the Warrior Priest and the classic handgunners.

How did you do that yellow?

Thanks!

The yellow is primed with iyanden dark sun, that's such a great way to get solid base coat for yellow. The base color is scrofolous brown from vallejo game line, washed with ogryn flesh and then highlighted with scrofolous mixed with bone going to pure bone in extreme highlights.

Melkhiordarkblade wrote:Well the purple is nice,you don't see colour like that often.

I have been using purple for long time, my first actual 40k army was purple chaos. At the moment I'm also painting purple Skorne and it seems to be my favorite color as a lot of time I seem to go back to purple and bone scheme.
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Next up on my random painted figs are these dark eldar wyches. I fell in love with the new dark eldar concepts and when I visited the local store on December these wanted to come home with me. I was aiming for something a lot lighter than the usual, wasps was the work title of these figs. A lot of the DE figs on the net are too dark and the detail is not visible on those figs. These were the first on my yellow phase, the primer on these is also Iyanden dark sun, which is my new favorite base color. You can get so nice and vibrant colors on top of it.

I painted the bunch already on January, but got the bases done last week. I played around with flesh colors again with these, the two pale ones were not so successful, but on the whole scheme is pretty good looking.

I finally got started on my Malifaux resurrectionists. I bought these figs when the main rulebook came out, but didn't have the inspiration to start painting them until now. These figs will be painted in more bright colors than is usual for me, as I think it will fit the style of the scuplts and I get to push myself into new directions with them.

The crew I have started with is the morgue crew of resurrectionist and first up is the master Dr McMourning. I went fit scheme pretty close to the studio one, I plan on keeping the turqoise as the color to draw the crew together so every member will have some of it. Here he is with base coat on, I have already started on the shading so it will not look as bright in the next update.

As allways comments and critic are welcome.

McMourning is starting to shape up, the turquoise areas are highlighted as is the hair. I also put the whites of the eyes to their place just need to spot the irises. Next up is highlighting the face and the khaki area.

Here are the pics of the finished coroner McMourning. He had some blood added to the apron and gloves with inks and Tamiya Clear red to get more character. He was nice and characterful figure to paint, once I got the scheme sorted out I finished the figure quite fast. The base is made by Microart, it is from their Cobblestone line. All of my Resurrectionists will be mounted on those bases.







Next up are the zombie dog totem for the doctor and his faithful assistant Sebastian.

New month and another mini done, this is another for my Morgue crew the Zombie Chihuahua totem for the Doctor. The figure is really small, but has a lot of detail from missing skin and tissue to fur and teeth. A lot of fun to paint, even if I had to squint at it from time to time to make out the details. It has some purple and green glazes added on top of the fur color to suggest some decay and the wound have some blood effects added to give more organic look. Overall a nice change of pace.





This last picture is just to give you idea on the scale of the dog. Here he is next to his Master, awaiting to fetch a piece of flesh that someone has carelessly discarded.



Comments and critique are welcome

To continue on the random nature of this paint log I bring you the first painted terminator from the Space Hulk - Brother Omnio. I got to play the first couple of games of Hulk during the summer and immediately was motivated to paint one of the terminators. They really are the best marine figs made by GW, the detail is excellent and crisp. That is also a factor to take into account when painting, I got the basic armor done in no time, but the painting just dragged on as the detail needed to be done. There is bit of danger in going over board with color on the detail and I tried to keep it tight and number of different colors down to keep him from looking like decorated cake.

There are couple of experiments in the colors with the red armor and gold, in both to get good contrast with minimal effort. The red is based on the foundation red and it lacks some depth because of that, but I think I will not go over it with inks. I have another one already waiting on the table for his turn and the plan is to slowly paint all of the terminator to similar level as this first one during the coming winter.

Click on the image for full sized in the gallery and tell me what you think.

I got this pair of Mantic ghouls as a promo for free about a year ago and I have been thinking about painting them since. They are really nice looking figs with lots of detail and nice proportions. I needed to try my idea of how to paint dead flesh on something before going forward with my Maelstrom undead and then I remembered these two fellows who fit the job really well.

The skin is painted with GW deneb stone and then highlighted with white added to the deneb stone. Then the skin was glazed with several coats of brown, chestnut and purple inks. This gives nice color to the skin and I will be using the same method with my other undead flesh. The clothes were painted with little attention to the colors as I just wanted to finish these two. The bases are painted with pigment washes, another first try. It worked better on the green clothed ghoul, I definitely still need to practice some with the pigments to get the results I like.

Northen wrote:The Ghouls are look great. I would maybe add few bloody details of wounds and scabs with dark reds and browns just to break the quite dominant pale flesh a bit.

Thanks Northen. That is the plan, I'll add some blood to the cuts and arms and post new pics then. I just had to varnish then before adding the blood with inks, as they were quite shiny after the ink washes.

I am quite torn about starting a KoW army of undead after painting these, they are such nice figs and quite fast to paint too, but have to resist that urge I have enough on my desk as is

Another shot of the Mantic Ghouls, this with more blood. So like Northen suggested I went back to them and added a bit of blood with old GW inks and Tamiya clear red. The blood was added to the wounds on the bodies, to the mouths and to the claws as I thought those places would gather most of the red. The picture is a bit dark, but from the one in Dakka Gallery you can zoom in to see the gore.

bebopdrums2424 wrote:Your painting is beautiful, sir.

Thanks bebop! I nowadays focus more on the painting as due to work and family my gaming time is really limited. I try to push myself toward new techniques and improvement in painting as a bit of personal challenge.

Northen wrote:Looks great now, the blood effect came out nice.

As a hindsight the left ones shirt color maybe little bit too close to the blood's color, but anyways good work.

Thanks, they work better now with blood than without. The red shirt is as you say not a good idea with these figs. These were painted as test figures for a possible undead army and the green works much better than the red. Even though I think that the green is too bright and final army should have darker green if I ever get to that project


I have started a Ork Stormboy to try out the weathering and chipping techniques we discussed in your SW thread, he should have nice areas for dirtying and chipping and it will work with the nature of the fig too. Hope to have early wip pictures soon.

LunaHound wrote:The zombie chuhuahua should be placed infront of the ghouls as they chase their run away pet xD

I might do such family shot, once I have more zombies to run after the poor pooch.

Here are some early WiP shots of my Ork Stormboy, which I will paint for the Waagh Dakka. It is going to be heavily weathered so now I am painting the the colorful parts to act as nice background for the chips, rust and dust. He is going to join the mob led by Mean Green Stompa's ork, so green boots are in order, otherwise he is painted along the basic guidelines for the WD. Gun arm not glued on yet to better reach the areas which are left behind in.

Let me know what you think.

MeanGreenStompa wrote:That's looking good so far. I really like your muted palate btw.

I was looking back over the previous page and would like to mention that the pale looking DE with the bald head is very cool, almost cenobite-like.

Thanks, I like the natural subdued minis myself and have tried perfect that kind of approach. The pale looking DEs were a experiment, I tried to get a unnatural looking skin color like the one described in the fluff. It didn't 100% succeed as the effect is a bit too stark on the photos, but the minis pop on the gaming table well.

Northen wrote:Agree with MGSotmpa, the muted colors work well here. I would like to see that striking yellow used in the shoulder guards as well. I think it will weather rather nicely, so it would be good to have some bigger surfaces painted with it. And the gold is already quite close to the yellow.

After your comment I looked at the ork and agree with you completely. I went a bit overboard with too many different yellows on the mini (the fur on the ork's collar is also painted in yellow hue, which makes it third yellow on the mini) and the gold will be only used in small details. I will paint the shoulder guards with the yellow, it will work better with the patterning I have planned also. I will paint either checkers or tooth pattern to the shoulder guards, probably tooth pattern as it is easier to get tidy looking

I still have some highlights to do on the mini, all of the large areas are now painted and shaded so I'm pretty close to getting to work on the area this mini was started: the weathering. Sorry no pics at this stage, will try to get another WiP shot taken today or latest tomorrow.

I got some painting done, the shoulder guards had couple of coats of yellow for solid base and rust effect was painted on the wheel on the base. I also highlighted the skin on the arms and cleaned up the red areas on the gun. The pictures are this time taken with natural light and are really close to actual colors for once.

Still loads of work to do, but slowly getting this flyboy done. Next phase is probably going to be getting the jump pack ready for weathering and putting some patterns on the shoulder guards.

Please feel free to give suggestions and comments.

The green has ended up pretty close to the skin, even though they started from completely different paints. I would have gone probably with yellow plates on the boots, but as this ork is going to join Waagh Dakka there was request from MGS that the boots should be green. I might go for another green though, but I will have to think on what would fit the rest of the fig.

During the past week I have managed to take some time to paint the stormboy a bit further. I have highlighted and cleaned the metal parts. I also begun the weathering by adding chips to the yellow, green and red areas. The chipped parts still need to be highlighted, before some washes and pigments can be added.

The jetpack is still the really WiP, I will add some ork glyphs to the large blank areas before starting to weather it.

Comments are welcome as usual, and clicking on the photos will take you to the big zoomable images on the dakka gallery.

Thanks Imperial Monkey.

I have added some more grime to the mini and some blood to the axe and gun blade. Still need to get some more chipping to the shoulder blades and do some detailing to the jump pack. Not enough progress yet for updated pics I'm afraid.

In order to finish the year in positive note I have finished couple of dragging projects, this Stormboy being one of them. He is the first figure I have tried to do weathering and now that he is finished I have to say that it brings a lot of character to the mini. Since the last pictures I have added a lot of small details like the checkboard to the jump pack, some chipping to all over the plates and some dirt with pigments. In addition the base was finished to match the Waaagh Dakka specs. This was nice project, even though I got a bit exhausted in the end and some parts are a bit rushed just to get him finished.

I'm looking forward for your comments on him and I also like to wish happy new year to all who have been following on my painting blogs!










Coming next (year) in my random figs is a infinity fig and probably some old Rackham figs...

Thank you guys! It was good to see him finished after the couple of months of putting him to the side for other figs.

As you thought Northen the yellow did weather really well and I have been thinking on painting my some of my unpainted marines in Imperial Fist scheme just to play around a bit more with that nice tone.

Thanks Monkey! It was fun to finally get to try all the weathering tricks in practice and result is not too shabby for first try.

It took me a while to get the ball rolling this year. Some changes to the family situation along with xbox for Christmas meant that the hobby time took a bit of a hit. But it seems that during the last couple of weeks things have stabilized so that I can get a bit of time to paint. The first figs I have managed to finish this year are these two additions to my Malifaux resurrectionists: Flesh Construct and Sebastian the morgue assistant.

I have kept the turquoise cloth to tie these fellows to their work place and used the same method to paint the dead skin as with the mantic ghouls some time ago. Otherwise pretty basic paint jobs, I'm trying to get the rest of my ressers painted so that I have this small side project finished so next up is Rotten Belle along with a Punk Zombie. I had a bit of problem with the camera so the images are not too good, trying to sort it out for the next batch.









And finally a family shot of the finished body stealers:

Northen wrote:Nice looking bunch, very characterful.

As a comment, the blood on the big guys hook looks better than the stuff on the saw blade and on the apron IMO, not sure what has happened there. Have you tried Tamiya Clear Red for blood effects?

Now the turquoise that I saw on the first guy makes more sense as I see more of these guys. As a hindsight maybe more hospital type pastel green would have been more appropriate

Thanks for the comments Northen!

The blood is needed partly done with Tamiya clear red, the most fresh looking part to be exact. I first paint the area with a mix of red, black and purple inks mixed with water and then the area with most fresh blood is given coat of clear red. I got a bit carried away with the small guys blood. I considered repainting the apron completely, but in the end felt lazy and let it be as a notice to be more careful in the future.

The studio paint job of these guys uses green and I wanted to push my limits with brighter colors than I usually paint, but at the same time try a bit original colors so I ended up with the turquoise. There is nothing that says hospital more than pastel green though

Another update within a week of the last one and containing another fully painted fig? I'm on fire. This time I have finished first of the living impaired escorts. As she is not part of the morgue crew I went with another main color on the clothes, but kept the off white and turquoise in there as well to tie her with my other ressers. She was nice and quick to paint, a bit more work this time on the skin as she has a bit more visible than the flesh construct. I'm quite pleased with the face. The skirt has more prominent highlights and shadows in real life, the camera took some away. After I have the rest of the figs I need to play painted, I might go back and add some dirt to the hem of the skirt as it looks too clean now. This is the first resser in my crew without any blood.







Next up is punk zombie after, which I have two canine remains to paint for the 25 stone crew.

n0t_u wrote:Wow, like the deathly flesh tone on that belle.

Thanks, it is quite easy to achieve. Just base coat with deneb stone or similar off white color. Then wash the flesh areas with purple, red brown etc. After the washes the skin looks quite dark and has nice spotted look to it. After this highlight the flesh area with base color which has some white added to it. I usually drybrush the areas with quite dilluted paint to allow the washes to show from below the highlight. Then in final phase add some very thin glazes of green and purple to add a bit extra variation.

MrMerlin wrote:Really cool stuff in this thread, you're a very good painter. I especially like the Stormboy! Wow!

Thanks, I like the GW's orks a lot and have painted a full FB ork army for 6th Ed. I don't have time to do that kind of projects anymore so I try to get some figs done here and there when inspiration comes. This thread is the documentation of my ADD painter madness and the small projects I do in between my main armies Skorne and Cygnar for Warmachine and Hordes.

I still have around 10 malifaux figs unpainted, but won't most likely paint all of them now. Just the figs that allow me to try the Morgue crew on the table top. There are some infinity and confrontation figs started on the table too and a nice soda pop fig is also crying for some attention. Tough choices to make what to paint first