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That's a great looking army Ifalna. I'm sure your client will be delighted!

Back from a trip to Dublin and straight back at the painting table.

4 hours work today =



Bad move skinks D:
Started properly on the rest of the Steel Legion unit, the sniper is a really fantastic model. All that's finished so far are the weapons which I tried out some stressed metal on while trying to not go above tabletop, lenses need a wash to darken down the reds, will be more updates of both soon

Those guardsmen are really nice looking Ifalna... and I HATE guardsmen! The RPG-on-steroids guy looks very cool as well as the sniper you mention.

Steel legion nearly completed. Tan and browns done, all metals bar weapons are not finished so they are waiting on a wash/highlight. Next are the accessories and little details like darkening eyes.
Skink unit completed but you have seen plenty of my skinks so far, assembling Slaan and Salamanders while in bed tonight, lol. For anyone currently waiting on a PM back from me, I will be replying while at work tomorow.

Group 1



Group 2



And the amazing looking sniper, cloak needs a little more work.




Click for big, hate linking massive images D:

HOLY ****!

That sniper looks awsome.

what color are the bases going to be, and will the snipers Camo cload be blended to match it?

Very nice, how are you feeling now?

Bases are going to be a cementy colour.

The snipers cloak has thrown me because of all the bloody leaves on it. If it has leaves, it should be plantish/dirt coloured logically, or autumnal. If it had no leaves I would have a bit more freedom with it, so I'm waiting to hear back from the owner and see if he is ok with how it is or not. It needs some more work on darkening the camo areas and highlighting the leaves anyway.

Forgot to mention, these are tabletop standard. The next higher standard models I will be putting out are the Slaan and emperors champion starting in the next week or so.

Edit: Feeling back to normal Bad cough only cleared up in the last 2 days, have had it since I got hit with the Office plague. Least I hopefully won't be getting the flu again for some time though! /fingers crossed.

Beautiful, much better than the test model you painted before!! I much prefer the brooding look.

That sniper looks awesome, even better when not painted as a Vostroyan imo. You just convinced me to go and buy it!!

Ifalna that sniper is just super!!! and what did you use for a copper color on the rocket launcher? I like the way it looks like metal but its not shiny. Im glad everyone at your house is feeling better.

The old worn copperysilver look is white primer with a solid wash of devlin mud, then drybrush of tinbitz, light drybrush of boltgun, and another heavy devlin mud. Takes the shine away and leaves it looking like old tarnished metal imo. The chain sword dude has the same on his blade.

I am very glad we are feeling better too That illness was not fun.

Ifalna wrote:I am very glad we are feeling better too That illness was not fun.

You're talking in the third person again, Ifalna.....

Nice looking Steel Legion, I must say.

They are splendid looking. They make me feel chilly just looking at their snowy bases (or maybe its just really cold in my flat)

They look great , are the steel legion all gws ,or are hey another companies as that sniper looks great

Nice, love those Steel Legion figs. That Vostroyan sniper looks awesome. Fits in pretty damn nicely too. Which is something you wouldn't expect from two aesthetically different ranges.

Weety you cheeky minx, the bases are not done yet Snow would actually look really cool on them though, darnit! They will be having grey concrety bases, one of them has it finished, the dude with the sword and skull mask.

I have a sarge to do at this level too, but he needs some camo. Will be fun!

Very striking Ifalna... which is saying something as guard are usually pretty nondescript.

I have snow on the brain! -

It has snowed in Dublin and nearby in the mountains, have fingers crossed it will get here!

Cheers Gits, they should look really nice as a completed unit.

weetyskemian44 wrote:I have snow on the brain! -

Brings a whole new meaning to "brain freeze".....

No snow yet D:

Feedback from the owner received, he is happy so far with everything (phew) but will be browning the camo on the cloak completley, will have to make the leaves more autumnal but it's still a headwrecker as the bases will be concrete. He will have terribad comouflage for his surroundings lol, worst sniper ever!

I have another glorious weekend of nothing bar painting coming up, so these should be finished then and I will be on to the lizardmen metals and his Sarge model. Painting after work can be really awkward due to how long my shifts are, it depends entirely on if I am exhausted when I get home or not. What I would do for a 9 to 5 job D:

What if the netting was a grayish color with brown leaves and then the bases just had some fall foliage on them? might help tie it together.

Oh yar, the Slaans colours were decided on too.

Going to have a bluegrey stone throne with tarnished golds and green vines. Skink attendant will be blue. Wee snakes I might go crazy with, will have to wait and see.

The slaan himself will have a yellow stomach fading to scarlet skin. Claws/eyes will be black with electric blue fades, so basicaly he is going to be the complte opposite of the rest of the army, a red/orange/yellow main scheme with blue accessories, complimenting the blue army with red/orange crests and shields. Not sure if his bone spikes on the throne should be obsidian or bone.. so feedback on that would be cool please

Salamanders will be red with orange sails also, thinking of blue inner mouths.



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Oh yar, the Slaans colours were decided on too.

Going to have a bluegrey stone throne with tarnished golds and green vines. Skink attendant will be blue. Wee snakes I might go crazy with, will have to wait and see.

The slaan himself will have a yellow stomach fading to scarlet skin. Claws/eyes will be black with electric blue fades, so basicaly he is going to be the complte opposite of the rest of the army, a red/orange/yellow main scheme with blue accessories, complimenting the blue army with red/orange crests and shields. Not sure if his bone spikes on the throne should be obsidian or bone.. so feedback on that would be cool please

Salamanders will be red with orange sails also, thinking of blue inner mouths.


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What if the netting was a grayish color with brown leaves and then the bases just had some fall foliage on them? might help tie it together.

True it would, but the choices are down to the owner, so if he wants the cloak browned and the bases concrete, I have to basically just work the leaves into that somehow. If I make them brown and slightly red, they should be ok. It is not a massive issue though, these models are to tabletop only. If I have to repaint it won't exactly take long. Cloak as it is is just 2 washes over primer.

Had snow on friday night while watching NCIS.

If you wanted to be clever (or if was your own model) you could print out some 1/36 size magazine covers etc, chop them up a little, and put them on the base. Paper litter is "urban" foliage A good way to bring some colors into concrete bases.

Love that copper-tone on the Steel Legion, and great job making the sniper look part of the same unit using colour rather than modelling. My vote for the slaan spikes would be obsidian, but tbh that's more a natural selection for me becuase of the red colouring - I really do have to try and wean myself off always using a red/black combo.

Cant wait to see your take on the Slann.

WIP Pics for us lesser mortals please.

Steel legion now finished ( bar the Ork head, poor guy). Will be sending shots to the owner to see if he wants any final changes Click for big as usual!


Just to stress, everything below is Tabletop standard only, so they arent exactly top tier haha, judge them as you would an opponents troops.
Group 1:



Group 2:



Everyone together:



Some sniper shots:





And the finished skinks to show I have indeed been working away I find it a bit irritating that I have gotten so much better at painting this scheme since I started but now there are barely any left to finish off. I guess thats just how it works though, least I could recreate the look very easily now







Slaan assembly to be finished up tonight, then either starting on the Karskin Sarge + Salams tomorow, or the Slaan. Will wait to hear back from the owner of the legion first

By the way, I am starting to get really with this camera now. No matter if I use auto or go fully manual, the results I get are seemingly random, even with full manual settings and the camera not being moved between shots, not the model. I keep it on f8 and alter the shutter speed based on how much Light I would like with around iso 80 on a macro/supermacro setting, but the results while in focus are usually grainy and the colours get completely ruined. I am using white lighting so have it set to that on white balance but still the background magically changes colours between shots ¬_¬ It is not a bad camera, Canon powershot sx200 IS, I just cannot seem to get it to work right.

That sniper looks badass Iflana. Very nice work.

This thread is turning into quite the commision-portfolio thread for you. Very nice work. If I needed minis painted for me, I'd def consider having you do it.

Ifalna wrote:

And the amazing looking sniper, cloak needs a little more work.




Click for big, hate linking massive images D:

Lol I love the picture of Fry you got there.

The guard look fine, sharp, clean painting and they have the contrast that's needed to look good on the table top.

The problem with the camera might be caused by your background. You seem to use white background and the camera might get confused from the amount of white in the picture. I had that kind of problem with my older camera, it was easily fixed by replacing the background with blue or gray sheet.