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Hey. Been lurking but not painting for a bit. I was a bit shell shocked by how well people thought the Nephilim went and as a result I knocked my own confidence by being convinced I would never manage to meet that level again. I spent a month thinking of pulling open the hobby station, but just veering away instead. I don't think the choice for Para's hobby challenge helped - I don't do much fantasy and the theme was Magic. Picking Gandalf was not a good choice, the mini had such emotional weight to it I didn't want to mess it up

So a month later, a near total burn out from work and I didn't know where I was. I decided to start slow and finish some back log from the primed pile. It was getting too big and I was getting down looking at it. This month's hobby challenge is Halloween and I have no monster's ready and don't want to do the clichéd genestealer. I therefore am not doing a monster (yet). I have painted these two Daleks for Doctor Who The Miniatures Game just for me to have finished something:

They aren't very good and they are a step back. I couldn't highlight them well and they are bland because of the colours which are stock photos. They are only getting iPhone photos and deserve no better until I have a Dalek army to photograph. I had loads of fun painting the exploded Dalek and feel better after that one. That is the goal after all so that was nice. I'm going to paint a few more quickish minis this month and if I do well I will look at maybe doing a Genestealer Cultist for the challenge. No targets, I'll see. I want to play with skin tones a lot so it would be nice to play around with them.

Good stuff, and great to see you painting again! The daleks might not be flashy, but they look bang on for the old-school design/scheme (the gunmetal grey Geneis-era ones are probably my favourite of the old ones), and the dead one is awesome.

Thanks Para, it felt good to paint again. I'll see what else I can manage. Getting the balance between work, family and hobby is a tricky one.

The grey and black Daleks are some of my favourites too, no sparkle, no shine, just drab. Hopefully will do some more soon

Watching Dr Who right now good stuff mate!

If you're watching Genesis of the Daleks that is too creepy Graven.

And here is Davros:


Pleased with how the skin came out. I found it hard to purposefully do a sick/pale skin tone that wasn't gorey. Think I pulled it off.

I'' trying to highlight as much as is able, but these sculpts are tiny and it just isn't fully possible. Only 1 Dalek left in this batch and then I'll look at finishing off some other half finished minis

Very nice indeed! Nah, working my way through Capaldi (woo, Zygons).

Haha! Fair enough. I've no problem with that, been enjoying Capaldi's run since he started.

Oh! Loving the Davros! He looks great.
Have a soft spot for him, and his yelling.

Fave on this page is definitely the melted Dalek, though.

Nice work on the skin tone, you've really got that pallid unwell look.

EDC

Man, those Daleks really take me back. Davros turned out well. How did you do his skin tones?

Buttery Commissar wrote:Oh! Loving the Davros! He looks great.
Have a soft spot for him, and his yelling.

Fave on this page is definitely the melted Dalek, though.

Cheers Buttery. Means a lot. I too love the "unhinged one" that is Davros. When I first saw Nurgle's Rot used on a mini (May we'll have been Januine's SH termie I immediately thought of an exploded Dalek. Had to be done!

JoshInJapan wrote:Man, those Daleks really take me back. Davros turned out well. How did you do his skin tones?

I have enjoyed combining my two big (non-family) loves with these minis. Will look forward to doing some of the others.

The skin tone was:
Chaos Black prime
Cadian Fleshtone base
Reikland wash all over skin
Flayed One Flesh highlight
Reikland again in recesses only
Pallid Wych Flesh highlight
Nuln Oil around eyes, in cheeks and in ears
Further Pallid Wych flesh highlights to smooth around nuln areas
heavily diluted nuln oil layer over all to soften transitions and add the sickly appearance

Huh. 9 layers. Who knew?

Thank you all for your kind words (that includes you EDC)

While watching Januine's Twitch feed tonight I finished the last of the current batch of Daleks (there are loads so there will be more!):

And after finishing that I went on to re-start these 3 Space Hulk Genestealers:


Busy weekend of family and "homework" so may not get more done until next week.

Nice work on these Daleks, mate!

Thanks a lot Azazelx. I know they aren't perfect, I'm aiming for "good" these days instead of beating myself up for not being as good as my friends on here. With luck I'll get better at some point.

Sorry I haven't been on your thread, I've got so little time these days I haven't got time to check in with everyone. I will soon though. Promise.

Don't be too hard on yourself mate. Daleks and stealers are looking great