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Lovely eyes...and his coloration makes me think of toasted melty cheese ball...and now I am very hungry.

Must eat now but on my way out I will tell those mimes to get their drop pods out of the garden.

hey weety... good to see you painting again...

and i fully agree with JB here... stop that skyrim stuff... if it keeps you from chucking out art... because art that squigg sure is!!! and i for one can´t complain with the focussing on that pic... looks very good...looks like a happy squigg^^

O hell I didn't read your little poem till just now - Mimes are looking for me!!? How terrifying. A very surreal poem which expresses well how much mimes have missed me. I might have to read it again just to make sure.

Tell them next time to mind the vegetables when they land their drop pods.

Speaking of vegetables, gardening in a monsoon is impossible.

Going to the circus next week - they may even have mimes, and they definitely have a knife thrower and a wheel of death!


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Oh and thanks Mr Von. It will be a pleasure to paint some more after so long an absence. The focus could be better but I'm glad you can appreciate them anyway. New camera soon.

LOL weety! I have been there frighteningly enough (Oblivion)

Nice job on the squig. Were you planning on doing the rat tail in the back or just leaving it as is?

There are a few things besides the tail that need a touch up so maybe I will do it. And then try and get crisper photos.
I think skyrim is loosing its vice-like grip on my mind and I have less shifts in work next week so you can look forward to more from me soon.

JB your poem was great. A beautifully surreal image of sad faced mimes (I imagine them with white faces and painted on tears).

Glad to hear that Skyrim is becoming less of a Time Tyrant, but it is your free time so I am happy to wait until you want to spend time painting minis.

On the other hand, the mimes won't wait. They have silent rages with frantic arm motions in between Weety posts.

I find it helps to keep a taser handy.

Finished farseer. He is a rainbow warrior.

I'm going to try and base everything from now on so I've been practicing making grass tufts out of feathers - like on seahorse-man here. Seahorse man is a slaneesh champion and he was just so cool I don't mind that he is fantasy. He may even get painted.

that rainbow farseer looks very cool... the transition is again superb... but what really brings this model to really pop are these unearthly white eyes!!!!together with the green faceplate... shockingly good!!!

and that seahorse- man... we need to see that painted by you!!! that screams for your talents!

Nice job on the farseer weety. I have that one myself... one of my favorites.

I like your blog better with painted minis than Skyrim

Well done, as always Weety!

Weety that Eldar dude is fantastic.

He has an awesome marble effect on the green of his helmet thats mega eye catching and I love the fade down colour effect on his chest sigil thing!

Great work as always

Cheers ifalna - its meant to look a bit like malachite. Lots of bright colours and funky effects was my plan for this guy.

Don't worried dstein I think the break from painting recharged my enthusiasm for it.

Gitsplitta's eldar wraithlord is assembled and ready to sit on the shelf for a few more months. Or maybe I will get over my fear of huge smooth surfaces and paint it. I Altered the position of the fingers with a pair of small pliers wrapped in masking tape to give it a less static pose.

heh...That model always reminds me of Marvin the Depressed robot from HHGTTG

i have still two of those models sitting on my shelf of shame... i am quite looking forward what you do with this one...

and as ifalna mentioned the marble effect... how did you do that?

Nice work weety! Looking to you for inspiration. I gave you one of those but I still have about 4 or 5 left over!

weetyskemian44 wrote:Seahorse man is a slaneesh champion and he was just so cool I don't mind that he is fantasy. He may even get painted.

To be fair, when he came out (alongside the appropriate Realms of Chaos book during Rogue Trader), I'm pretty sure there was minimal distinction between a 40k and Fantasy Chaos Chimp - even ones which have been gifted with the Face of a Fiend. The only difference would have been which shape base you gave him.

Maybe Weety subconsciously wants to paint some WHFB figures...

Wheety there is a guy here in gosport who has some RT bits so I will pop in in a few weeks and have a look about getting some jetbikes fer yas

OOo jetbikes miss dee. The really old ones are rare - I have never seen one in real life.

dysartes yes I noticed that some of the old chaos champs end up pulling double duty. And its the face of a fiend is it? That explains it but I prefer to think of him as seahorse man. I want more mutant chaos freaks! They speak to me.

I do like a bit of fantasy but the huge regiments put me off so maybe I will just do a few of the characters and mount them on special base.

Blimey gits you have a lotta wraithlords - glad to take one off your hands. I will paint it I promise.

Now von dom lets see - how to do marbling? Here is a close up pic to help - first I used P3 privateer press paint called green ink watered down to just give a nice smooth blended surface. Then applied small blobs of random concentrated ink all over, then I mixed in a little black ink and tied it all together with more blobs - It kinda evolved randomly but you want to try and get veins of the lighter background going through the darker colour. Then I highlighted the veins slightly with more white (very sparsely applied otherwise it will look dumb).


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Does anyone have any ideas for what I should paint on my wraithlord? Links to well painted ones would be usefull. Just going to google it now and see if I find any gooduns.

that is if he still has em

thanks weety... will keep that in mind!

I was never any good at painting them. That old model is pretty static when compared to the new ones... so I think your challenge will be to make it look interesting and alive. Your pose changes were a good start, now you have to figure out how to add motion or dynamic lighting with your paint job.

Yeah I was half tempted to move the legs as well. But that would have been a much more complex job - maybe next time.

I wish I had an airbrush for this one.

i bet that these would look an extra mile cooler done with an AB...no offence meant...

Really would - I'm trying to do the shading and highlighting the old fashioned way and it doesn't quite translate to the dreadnought because of his size

In keeping with my new resolve to put bases on things here are some things I have based. I've got a whole pile of the little ruined paving bases and the orks are my first go with static grass - anyone have any tips for getting it neat?

That first figure is awesome Weety.... what is is??

Terminator armoured inquisitor - 1989. He does look pretty cool doesn't he.

That is quite possibly the coolest terminator figure I've ever seen.

Other than the bolter, he looks like he'd hold up to any modern termie IMHO.

He's a stunner, but goes for a bomb on t'internet. Can't wait to see the weety treatment!