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Glad you like them! I enjoyed painting something different.

Very nice!

Great use of colour on Marco, and the apothecary just looks fantastic.

Cheers monkey! They are finally finished. They may have looked finished before, but I felt that the backs needed tidying up and some colours needed more richness. I think one has to be a bit obsessive to get a good photo finish.

Wonderful work Weety. Both are great, really like the freehand stars on the inside of the cloak

No...much faster if you only paint the front, then base it to only be viewable from one angle

That's why flat figures used to be so popular

Yes its a constant temptation with models that I paint for myself to be lazy with the back. But these are commissions so need to stand up to 3D scrutiny.

 monkeytroll wrote:
No...much faster if you only paint the front, then base it to only be viewable from one angle

That's why flat figures used to be so popular

I'm fairly sure it is what Rackham used to do with their studio painted models, as well.

The two gentlemen look spot on, weety.

Splendid. I'm glad you like them.

It would be considerably quicker and cheaper to just paint the front, but how disappointing it would be if you saw the Rackham studio collection in real life (I hope its not true). I tend not to put as much detail into backs but I wouldn't go that far!

I didn't win the competition! I didn't even win a prize. I never win anything. Sad face.

I think I need a special competition where I am the only one allowed to enter, then I can win a prize!

I will probably have to provide the prize myself... maybe I should just go buy myself a chocolate cheesecake.

Still 4th place not to shoddy. Here's my entry in case you weren't following the comp:

With the number of entries that there were, 4th is pretty good and very British.

Considering you were out of your comfort zone with an unfamiliar, modern, model, you've done a very good job (as always). I like the grubbiness of him.

You may not be a winner yet, but I still worship at the temple of Weety.

Thanks Dr! I resisted the urge to buy cheesecake. Its the taking part not the winning and all that.

Ooh....modern figures and all that jazz.....

Have to go check out what beat you now.

And don't resist the cheescake....the cheesecake is all

I reckon if I did it again I'd do some more freehand on his back armour, do an osl on the back of the helmet and give those grenades a more distinct finish. Oh and pupils.

What freehand would you do on a Cadian's back, weety? I can see an argument for some freehand on the other shoulderpad, and possibly the helmet, though.

I was thinking very small red triangles for some reason.

 weetyskemian44 wrote:
I reckon if I did it again I'd do some more freehand on his back armour, do an osl on the back of the helmet and give those grenades a more distinct finish. Oh and pupils.

Yeah, little details like that would have taken it to the next level.

I'm repainting my squat army! Its not ready yet so here is a nice green berzerker to pass the time (i finally finished him).

Oh I remember him I thought he'd been finished...Nice job, 'tis a lovely green.

Fairly quivering in anticipation of squats redux.

Its going to be fun. I've got three squads of troops with lots of heavy weapons, a command section, two bikes, a rhino and a "sentinal" (the scrunty walker). It could be played as and old rogue trader or 2nd edition army (I have that obsession too monkey!) or it could be "counts as guard". Its a little light on muscle, but would you believe you have to pay £100 to get a 5 man squad of exosuit armoured squats at the moment on ebay. I might stretch to buy another bike or two though...

Just love what you did with that figure weets. Bravo!

Yeah, really nice.
I shall have to remember that scheme for the future.

Hi Weetys,

I have been a long term lurker on dakka, a few days ago I found this thread of yours and spent several days going through it. It has taken a long time and has been an interesting ride.
It has been amazing see the progress you have made over the years. I find your style of painting wonderful and you are very talented with it.
I found the whole thing so interesting, especially because of my passion for rogue trader era models, I have a 150+strong rogue trader era imperial guard army i recently stripped with the intention of repainting, this thread has given me great inspiration for doing so.
Thanks for an entertaining read and lots of ideas, it was the motivation to say this which made me finally make a post on dakka!

Hey weety, no hard feelings with the comp. i LOVED your entries and i was quite surprised to see that in the end, you didnt grab a 1-3 spot! It just was across the board with the 3 judges! I was hoping youd get a best scheme award too, but alas im stuck painting Minus' purple and pink fiasco. hehe...still a great mini though and thanks for joining it...you always raise the level!
Cheers
BB

Oh definitely no hard feelings! Its the first time I even came 4th. I feel like a contender at last. I did moan a bit! Sorry bout that.

Hi spinnerthing thanks for looking! I'd love to see your guard when you're done.

Slow progress on the squats, the fairy powerspray is giving me dry hands. Need gloves. Also I always seem to get a burned out feeling this time of year. I just want to hide in bed until its warm again. Spring's coming...

Don't know about your part of the country, but it's glorious in the South East today - feels like Spring has Sprung

Yeah us too today. If this keeps up I'll be back in fine fettle in no time. Watch this space.


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I can get my foot over 7 daisies, so apparently its spring already

Or you have abnormally large hobbit feet......

Hell no I have average feet, size 6, no hair, honest.

I assumed that as that saying came about in medieval times that it does not apply to people with big flippers. Malnutrition being all the rage back then.

^ So you've average feet & you're bald?

Bad Nerdfester!