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Everything you have on here is incredible. I am so jealous, well done xxx

Thank you Bubble !
If you like my minis, then for sure you have good tastes. ^^


I have started painting my first Askari warrior. I applied the baseoats to see if my main colors matched together. I have almost finished painting the skin, but other areas are only a basecoat.




And since I had the question on another forum, this is a picture of Candice and Viktoria side by side :

I think the green is a great choice for the skin. It's hard to say how the rest will come together but I'm sure you'll do a grand job.

Thanks for the scale shot too. I got a couple of Candice because I'm hoping she scales up well with Infinity though I'll be holding on to one until I can do the sculpt justice as it was intended.

Askari is coming along nicely. I think the colors work well together.

Boy, those are two formidable ladies!

These ladies are awesome. They are among the models I had the most pleasure to paint.
I have already plans for the next ones I'll paint, but I can't tell for the moment. Keep watching this thread.


I have painted the purple clothes on the Askari yesterday. I wonder if it requires a wash to make it a bit smoother or not. Any advice (about the wash or about anything else) ?

Looks great to me. If you aren't happy with the purple, a wash could be good to bring the highlights down closer to the base. What are the plans for the metal?

Yup. I applied a purple wash on the pants, it looks better now in my opinion.

I also painted other stuffs, such as the metal parts. I had loads of fun using all sorts of washes I could find on my desk :

Love the color scheme, It works perfectly.

Brilliant! The purple looks great now and I love what your doing with the rest.

Thanks guys !
For the color scheme, I made trials on paper sheets. I painted splashes of different colors, to see what worked well together.


The Askari Warrior is now finished :




I feel like the colors are not as in reality, I don't see him so green IRL. I'll see if I can make a better shot of him later.
Anyway, this gives you a good idea of what he looks like.

*chuckle* That photo series makes me dizzy...

Nice work Minus, he turned out great!

He/it is really nice! Great job, Minus. What's the story behind the game?

Just great, also the metal is amazing.
You have class, sir!

Gitsplitta wrote:*chuckle* That photo series makes me dizzy...

Nice work Minus, he turned out great!

Not sure how I should understand the first sentence... (WHY is my english not fluent ? )
But I understand the second one very well, so thank you Gits !

SelvaggioSaky wrote:Just great, also the metal is amazing.
You have class, sir!

The metal was the part I really wanted to improve on this one. I had a massive use of washes, on my Eden models I want to have metallics with high contrasts and deep colors.

Casey's Law wrote:He/it is really nice! Great job, Minus. What's the story behind the game?

The game takes place on Earth, during the 23rd century.
Political and environnemental events lead to a WW3 wich ends in 2137 - due to the use of viral bombs, nuclear missiles and sismic weapons - with an almost complete annihilation of the human race.
A few people survived on the planet surface, most of them are now mutants and degenerates. But there were also shelters built underneath the surface by different factions, each of them having their own interests.
For example, the Askaris - the faction I chose - were scientists and rich industrials that burried themselves in bunkers before the war started, and made researches about genetics and bio-mechanics in order to create the absolute human being, the perfect warrior. However they had to speed up their studies due to the war, so it didn't work as well as they hoped it would and the result is an underground society of mutants that are barely humans.

A few years after the apocalypse, the survivors started to leave their shelters and discovered the new face of earth : a wasted land.


The game presents the fightings between gangs of survivors between 3 and 6 members. It is played on 60 x 60 cm boards and a game takes around an hour. Each faction has a very typical aspect, visually it's a pleasure.

Excellent, I'll have to look into the game some more it sounds fun.

 Casey's Law wrote:
Excellent, I'll have to look into the game some more it sounds fun.

It is fun.
Well... if we can say so about the end of the world...


This is the link to the official shop. You can see every mini they released for Eden : http://www.taban-miniatures.com/shop2/index.php?cPath=48

Great job as always. You should post WIP shots for your next mini. I'm sure I'm not the only one that would like to see how they progress from step to step.

I don't really like the mini, but it is more the style of the mini itself, not the painting.

nold wrote:Great job as always. You should post WIP shots for your next mini. I'm sure I'm not the only one that would like to see how they progress from step to step.

Thanks Nold.
Do you mean that I should post more WIPs of my next mini ? Or that I should keep up posting WIPs ?

whalemusic360 wrote:I don't really like the mini, but it is more the style of the mini itself, not the painting.

To be honest, the warrior is not my favorite model. He has a very static pose. I started with this one for this reason. So I could try my color scheme on the models I liked the less, and do better then on the other minis.
I have started the Defender this week and I definitely prefer this model to the warrior.


A WIP picture :

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So far, only his mutated hand and his purple clothes are almost done.
Any thougts?

Superb work minus! Just love the vibrant purple and ghostly green! The use of washes is really outstanding

Thank you !
(your Kroots look really good btw )

Another WIP picture :




I finished the skin and the mask. I have basecoated the metals, next step is to work on them.

The defender is complete !
Here's a pix of my first two painted models :

Very nice pair. Man... the jewel on the defender's belt is unbelievable. Looks 100% real.

Also love your treatment of the eyes... kind of a washed out pale blue, very sweet.

Thanks Gits.
At first I painted the gem on his belt purple. It looked reaaly good by itself. But sadly it didn't pop due to the purple scarf he wears around his waist.
Then I choose this bright green, and it works pretty well with the rest of the scheme.

And the eyes are painted with scaly green and white. You can't be wrong when you add scaly green on a model.

I'll keep that in mind. Who's color is it? I'm not familiar with the color.

 Gitsplitta wrote:
I'll keep that in mind. Who's color is it? I'm not familiar with the color.

Scaly green is an old GW color and I think Vallejo is still making their equivalent in the Game Color line.

Ah, I'll look for it.

Just dug out my Vallejo version and it's called "Scurf Green."

Epy is right, it's a GW color from the previous range.
I don't use this color a lot (I mean I don't use it on large areas) but I use it really often. It's a very vibrant blue-ish green so it's perfect for gems, glowing effects and so.

I use it for the plasma engines on my BFG ships, as light source on bolters scopes and so on. The flames on my skaven sorcerer's staff is also painted with scaly green.

I'll definitely get it on my "buy" list!