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Tried a test one today, doesnt -feel- terribly humid, but I still got little patches o frosting. Not nearly as bad as yesterdays group, but not spectacular. Im gonna give it one more shot over the weekend (or when it cools down), then call it quits and have Tides matte them as we were talking about. Its annoying, but just gotta go that way :/


@Wehr: I think they were sculpted perfectly fine

Yep that'd be totally fine! Me sealing them >>> frosted flakes sealing

As long as the ones that got frosted are repaired it will be no problem. Worth testing one last time on the weekend when the weather's had a chance to change, though.

Yup yup!

I'll do my best on repairs. There are a couple minor areas that show through the gloss, but hopefully I can mitigate the worst of it.
Little brother I showed it to wasnt able to tell right away until I pointed it out, but he's not a mini guy, so his eye isnt quite as trained.

Terrible thing to have a model stuffed by the final step. I haven't had the horror stories of spray paint (whether colours or varnish) ever giving me grief. But a good mate of mine had a big issue with the GW fang spray doing horrible things to models.

Waiting for a good day to do the retry, but so far results are not promising :/


IN the mean time, its been work and painting the rest. At this stage its just all the solos and characters to go. Time consuming, but only because they have so many colors on em!

Here's Maximus and Lord Carver.

Waiting on heavier metals......MUCH heavier metals.

So are these guys the legit models for the characters or more conversions? Showing my ignorance of the game system again.

Gorgeous piggies in here - the meaty looking Pumba's are especially glorious and full of tusky goodness

Those are the legit models, Archer! Privateer's characters are great, it's the units that I like to convert for and... well OK everything but the characters

Awesome work, Ramos!

If they are the real characters then the conversions do an amazing job of fitting the appearance and vibe if the force. Damn nice job.

@Archer: Yup yup!! These minis are all the stock PP characters/solos. One or two have minor tweaks and conversions (biggest of which is a simple headswap on a model I havent shown), but overall, they're unaltered.
I really got into the whole Frankenpig look when messing with my side of the conversions- reminded me a LOT of doing my orks back in the day. The whole roughly jamming metal parts into fleshy parts... Love it!!


More work on the pigs! Hoping to finish these guys by the end of the week. Honestly not that hard, just many many details!


Lord Carver- Im particularly pleased with how his sword came out. Might yet hit it with a little bit more ultra bright silver just for the brightest highlights.






This guy is one of my favorites of the group and shows many of the themes indicative of the army's aesthetic- Sturm and Drang!

I didn't even know "they" had a bionic leg! That's great

Carver's sword is truly epic! I don't think he ever swings it, just leans on it for the intimidation effect.

There are a ton of really gorgeous details. Temark able how much detail that their sculptors can squeeze in there. Its why I really enjoy painting the pp characters. They let me go wild with detail painting, then I'm left with a fantastic model in the end.

Characters are looking great.

EDC

Oof... Crazy busy at work means not much time to paint... Im getting there, though! Seriously, I know Im almost done with these guys.

Just have a few very small details to do (shade/highlight on the leather, bone areas, eyes and lenses) and these guys will at long last be done!

Sturm and Drang





And Targ




Snuck in a side project real quick to break up the fields of bacon- Remember the Things I made for Gits' Halloween army? A while back he sent me some extras to round out the force. These two bring the squad to a full 5-spawn unit!

That fig is fethign awesome - a two-headed centoboar.....thingy.....fantastic. great paint as ever Ramos

How did you make The Thing dogs? They're wicked.

Pigs are looking great too, loving that bronze gauntlet.

EDC

Dude looking good! :-) loving the spawn dog things with the nasty intestine tentacles the slick blood effect is great, have you thought about some blood marks on the fur where they tendrils would whip around and hit the beast?

The original thing-dogs were Ramos' idea. I'm not sure where he got all the extra tentacles from that he put on them but when making these two to round out the unit, I had to think long and hard about how to replicate the effect.

I took some plastic rod that was about the same diameter as the tentacles molded onto the hounds & subjected it to a stream of heat from my heat gun (blow dryer on steroids). As the plastic softened, I pulled the two halves of the rod apart. This thinned and stretched the heated parts of the rod until they finally snapped, giving me the curved tentacles that Ramos has so expertly painted.

I love them Ramos. The shiny, slick appearance of the tentacles is *perfect*. Thank you!

The "Things" are great! But it's the angry pumpkins that are the most awesome

Pig characters are looking good, can't wait to try them out on Wehrkind

pumpkins are awesome. Angry animals and angry vegetables. A complete balanced A** whooping.

AAAGHH!! SO MUCH TO DO!

In case I havent mentioned before, I'm going to be working for OTL at Gencon later this week- And of course that means that I have a metric ton of stuff to do, not to mention work suddenly got crazy and has been keeping me from my painting table far more than I'd like!

Biggest thing to report is that the crisis has ended and the endless tides of bacon are at last at an end!



Not present in the group shot are the big boars I finished an eternity ago (or at least thats what it feels like! )


Maximus:







Little goblins- Particularly pleased how the tentacles came out. Hes so proud of his catch... Too bad that mask has such poor peripheral vision!





The good Doctor Arcadius... Swapped out his bare head for a hooded one from some Wreck-Age Reclaimers...





And his assistant, Targ.





Sturm and Drang, the terrible twosome:







Lord Carver, a very posh piggy:





Counts-as Bon Grinders, lovingly converted by Wehrkind:




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Next up on the list are 3 minis for OTL's booth that are juuuuust about complete. Essentially one detail each on them to go!

Super crunch time... The heat is on!

Looking pretty darn good! I hadn't quite realized just how bare Maximus' right side is. I will have to do some free hand there when I finish up my own model. I kind of hate it when sculptors make bodies that are supposed to be covered in hair totally flat like that. (So, like the entire PP line of were-things.) Just seems so lazy to make the painter put on all the fur detail that one should see.

Hopefully after you get back we see some vegetarian friendly giant robot of doom action.

Man, they all look so good! I am beyond pleased with the results, fantastic work

Love those little gobber chefs, they add a nice pop of color to the army and are hilarious

Have fun at GenCon, take lots of pics, and then we all know what time it is...

TITAN TIME

WOW...I love the bacon Ramos....like I said before you have a gift for painting....now...how about that stompy robot of DOOM!!!!!! ....PAINT THE TITAN BRO!!!!!!!!! DO IT NAO!!!!!

Although if you get time to snap a pic it'd be cool to see the OTL figs . Or will they be unveiled at the con?

Awesome stuff.. My favs is the gobbo with the leg.. nice catch!

Tremendous! Better that a salad with blue cheese dressing topped with Bacos!

Remember " Were" looking for a step by step. showing here.. ( I need to reapply for my Reaver! )