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There are some nice lighthearted Bloodbowl sculpts that I've consider buying before. Since it's just fantasy armies in a different setting they blend quite well and I imagine would add some nice character to a force. I actually think it fits your style very well, if I come across anything more intact I'll be sure to send them your way.

You've certainly had a busy painting day! Really nice work on them all, the ungor(?) actually looks quite modern, is it of the same era? The mace guy's face is giving me the serious creeps, the addition of the mohawk is making it worse too. It's just too human, looks like the offspring of a weird one night stand between a beastman and human.

Nice hornblower!

Careful weets, you're in danger of having an army at this rate...

Holy Moly Weety. Your painting really does follow the thermometer's mercury doesn't it; cold weather and Weety goes quiet, English summer and Weety goes paint-crazy...

Very nice jobs all round and the speed is stunning.

Its so bloody hot that painting is basically all I could do today - Its like being under a grill if you go outside. But its good weather for painting,the drying times are significantly reduced - cold weather makes my fingers numb and so is bad for painting.

casy I think the ungor is new-er-ish. Late 90s early 2000s.

I know what you mean, I've been praying for a storm every night for the last week.
The heat, however, has sapped me of my motivation; I've only managed a few little bits and pieces.
Had to work really quickly on my last putty work as well, because the heat speeds up the curing time.

It's great to see so many pretties coming out of here though.

Oh, and didn't say; I was right about spotting your infinity entry. Was a good job and a pretty model.
[/fanboy-isms].

I spent way to long on the base and not nearly long enough on the figure and the photography. I think I panicked over the deadline and painted too quickly. But I'm happy with It for a first go at competition. Next time I will be ready...

I really enjoyed your entry but I agree that the painting could have gotten more work. The theme was a bit too vague, I'll make a post about that in the main thread later. As you say, next time you'll have experience on tour side.

The skaven arrived today. They are beautiful. Seriously the best sculpts of the 80s. Very fine sculpts with cool looking spiked leather armour and finely made appropriately sized weapons. And really cool ratty faces, nice clawed feet and hands. Most are pre 1987 I think, before Rogue Trader was a twinkle in Rick Priestley and Andy Chambers eye . They've all been based, primed and washed in black. Might manage to paint up a test model by tonight.

Ooh! Looking forward to it!

Best sculpts of the 80s. Couldn't resist a vanity shoot before pigment. Here they are in glorious black, white and 40000 shades of grey.. Although I should point out I'm too drunk already to paint. Watching tagadella nights, such a great gentle satire on redneck america. Anything with Will Farrel in it is alright by me


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Its hard to believe they sculpted most of these in 1986

Love the old Skaven.

Also, "tagadella" made me laugh.

Keep up the goodness!

Aw those are rather lovely little guys, I'm impressed. Go get your drink on but I want to see them painted soon!

No probs casey it probably won't be long.

We were chatting to a long lost relative today who joined the french foreign legion, and he won't really tell us much about his time except to say that there were a lot of forced marches across the desert followed by three course meal with lobster, foie gras and wine. What I want to know is is he gaking me or do they really feed them haute cuisine?


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Oh I sweared and dakka changed it - thats nice of em - I meant to say "is he yanking my chain" Lol

Haha, who knows?! They certainly keep an air of mystery about themselves but I imagine its all bull. They get everything free, I can't imagine they can afford to feed them any better than they have to, to keep them going.

Well he said they were like athletes and were fed accordingly, but he is just the type of man to "gak" me. Hes always kidding around.

Haha, it's hard to say. He's a military man so you'll have no luck interrogating it out of him. Right ahm aff tae bed, I can't keep up with you young binge drinking ruffians.

The demon drink strikes again! I always end up drinking more than I should.

Just realised that I should put up the other pics of my competetion entry - there are loads and they are huge - you should be able to zoom in as far as you like and never see a pixel. I only spent a few hours painting the mini so considering that it isn't bad. But nothing spectacular - next time it will be spectacular. I was going for an almost peaceful feel - like she has been fleeing through the jungle and has suddenly stopped and realised how beautiful it all is.

I had hoped to persuade some tiny house spiders to put some spider webs on the plants but they weren't playing ball (they covered it in spiderwebs before I primed but that was no good to me. I wish I had taken a photo) It would have been so cool and no one would have been able to figure out how I did it!!.

anyway pics...



I could do so much better

Now you say it I really get a sense of that peacefulness, I wonder how that could have been made more obvious? I really like your entry but as you say, you are capable of much greater things, I'd be excited to see what you'd do next time round.

Hah, real spider webs is an amazing idea, I bet that could actually work with some careful planning.

Really looking forward to Weety spectacular.

I liked the colour choices for that model.
The base is very cool. In fact, what was the recipe for the rock that she's on? If you can remember.

Maybe, what you could have done, was give her skin a gloss/satin varnish to make her look sweaty and then maybe some little cuts and scrapes to give the impression of fleeing through jungle branches and muddy splashes on the legs...

Obviously first the rock was primed and washed in black, then carefully drybrushed up to white again. The paint on the rock is a sort of blue-grey wash. about 10% blue and 90 percent grey. It was shaded with the grey plus a little armour wash and then gently dry brushed with a touch of white I added little patches of very watered down green afterwards to give algae. Nothing complicated.

Those are good ideas Dr H. No doubt at some point I will try and improve or completely repaint this. I always seem to end up doing that with things I'm disappointed with. Mud on the legs! Why oh why didn't I actually think of that.

Casy - maybe I should have sculpted a flask and a lunchbox full of sand-wedges to illustrate that she is taking a break?

Planning is tricky with spiders. They put their webs where they want to really - I would have had to imprison one in a box with the model and threatened it until it did as it was told. But I'm not really cool with picking them up. Nasty little legs and eight of em and they scuttle so fast.

Milliput arrived today so construction on the dungeon can continue.

Also the chaos mage who will use his mental powers to rule the dungeon.

That's beautiful, Weety. Nice work.

I really like your Infinity piece weety, has a nice relaxing pastal theme going on.

Haha, a lunchbox would have been hilarious!

Yeh any spider that I couldn't squash with the end of a pencil freaks the heck out of me, I'm like a rabbit caught in the headlights! It's pretty rough actually. And my garden backs onto an abandoned rail track so come the end of the summer I start to get huge big things invading my house looking for a mate. They are a good couple of inches in diameter, scary!

Fun with dungeons. Bottle of PVA and some cardboard packaging makes permanant dungeon sections. This is very much experimental and I've learned things that will help on the next one. The little hole in the middle is going to have a drainage grate.

Liking the archway Weety. Good job.

Looking good, I think it'll come together really well when you add details and paint, are you going to 'grout' between the slabs?

Wheety's dungeon ..........

You have dirty minds !!!!!!!!!!

Well I have been having trouble getting on the internet and as it turns out the lack of a procrastination machine is good for productivity.

These are some of the best "quick" paintjobs I've ever done - It only took me a very relaxed 8 hours. That gives the wrong impression really as probably only 20% of that time was spent painting and the rest just watching twin peaks waiting for paint to dry. (we got the dvd series for 2 quid, happy times).

I'm really enjoying painting at this time and I feel like I'm making progress faster than usual.

Very nice skaven weets. Have just the right feel to them.