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@Commander Cain: Thanks. Which book did you finish?

@Stretch: Cheers. By all means, do those empire minis. They got some mighty interesting colourschemes and if I wasn't tied up with all the commissions, I'd be working on my own Empire army right now.

@112lom: Thank you.

@silveryfox: Thanks!



Little update on what happened today (apart from a bit more on the Swordsmen).

Outriders horses WIP


Knights horses WIP


10 more Greatwords WIP



I'm really trying to do as much as possible because these days i'm mostly motivated by panic because this monstrosity is leering at me day and night and I know that some time soon I won't be able to resist any more and get it out of its box. And once that happens, the Empire stuff is starting to get delayed...

@Truffle: Cheers.

@Magickal Memories: It IS a beautiful model and at that of a creature you don't see models of too often. I think it's well worth the money.

@MajorTom11: Many thanks.

@TiB: Cheers. Here's a picture of the DKOK test mini I did some months ago if you're interested:








Alright, the new Greatswords are finished now, including the banner.





Some of you might notice that some of these Greatswords have darker skin colour than the rest and that there is some exotic symbology on the banner. Fluffwise, the army just returned from a crusade against Araby and some of the regiments featured in this army have a history of having been to Araby. That's why some amongst the troops of the Greatswords regiment are from araby and the regiment incorporated some bits of arabian culture into their traditions so I thought it would be a nice touch to have some darker skinned dudes in there. Reason is this: The state troops in this army obviously weren't in Arabia but the Greatswords, being more of an elite unit and being much more professional soldiers with more esprit de corps and all that were there too. And the Knights of course (Order of the Blazing Sun); Magritta was in endangered by an arabian army once more or something so the Order went there and the Greatswords went with them. Something like that. I hope I don't upset the owner of this army too much by messing his fluff up but you guys know how much I like writing endless drivel when it's late. :-P ). Anyhoo, while the knights enjoy staying pretty much by themselves, the Greatswords had more contact with the locals (be it in good or bad ways) so I thought they were the ones much more prone to acculturate to an extent.

I really like these minis (I know I said that already but I can't stress it enough). Perfectly easy to rank up, no unnecessary details and overall good design. Very good options and good sculpts, especially on the heads. They really make up for the State Troops who are not quite on par with those.

Apart from that, I finished the Outriders horses and did the horses of the knights (sans the barding for now). Next thing on my list would be the Outriders themselves. Problem is, I still have to convert the second champion and have to wait for a bit until I can build him. So I'm doing the Outriders in two steps of five each.

See you soon!

Alright, I didn't get all that much done the past two days but I put together another unit of handgunners and more or less finished the first unit of Outriders:









I think I'll do an army shot after the Outriders are really finished and then go assembling the Chimera.

gman1401: Many thanks. I really have to do a group shot of the stuff that's finished so far.

Commander Cain: Well, I was pretty lazy the past week. Glad the recipe worked for you. Would you mind sharing the tweaks you did?
Yeah, that blob on the DKOK minis was a mistake. The client gave me the minis assembled and thought they were part of the minis and when I did the testminis, I was oblivious enough not to look it up. Thanks for the heads up though; the blobs are removed now. As for the Discworld books - haven't read any of the newer ones (well, none really starting with the release of Thud!) but I hear that Unseen Academicals is great.



There hasn't been an update in over a week now which is pretty long compared to the timespans I usually have between updates. Fact is, I haven't been all that productive for a few days. Glad that's over and I'm back to my regular level of "productivity" (so not all that much really).

Anyway, here's what happened:

Detritus and Dibbler finished






And here's a shot of the almost fully assembled chimera (covered in GW stuffs. This is not to annoy you, it's mainly for scale reasons and a lame joke I tried to pull off on another board :p)



I got farther now on the mini but not all that much so no painted WIPs as for now but soon!


Apart from that, the finished Khorne chaos space marines army:

*) Single pictures and a proper army shot are to follow


WIP of the first bunch of Death Korps of Krieg:


The Space Hulk minis are finished as well. I'll do pictures of those once they're varnished.

Currently in the works: Imperial Fists testmini.


So that's that for now. Comments and critique welcome as always.

@Manchu: Thanks for dropping by and the compliments.

@Doots: Hey, thanks!

@Empchild: Cheers!

@Cosmic: Thanks muchly. I'll do my best so it never stops.

@IHEARTLAGEBLASTTEMPLATES: Sheesh, I usually don't copy-paste names when replying to other people's replies but in your case I often have to give in and just copy-paste the username. Still, thanks for commenting and the wows!

@MajorTom11: Cheers. I'm really glad the client chose this scheme (you may remember that I did three test schemes). It has the contrast so many DKOK armies sadly lack.

@Metsuri: Thank you. I believe that GW's heyday was in the early and mid-1990s and I love miniatures from that era. That's the main reason I took this commission. Especially the bloodletters are very well-chosen. If you look closely, you'll notice how none of them are alike; I didn't even know that they did that many different Bloodletters in that range. Painting all these single-pose World Eaters was a chore though. But these also have a charm of their own and I'm really glad I got to paint these again. Got a box of those back when they were new and didn't paint them all that well. So I had a chance to make up for that. They also have a very interesting and unique helmet design that was never used again.

@bunnygurl: Thanks! Glad you like them. There's more Empire stuff coming up but for now, It's mostly chimera and 40k stuff. But there WILL be much more Averland Empire minis!

@Arakasi: Thanks. I used the same technique and colours as on I did on Sicarius in my Step-by-Step painting tutorial (apart from the fact that I had run out of Blood Red so I had to substitute with some other similar red by P3 if I remember correctly). Here's the link: http://sigur.tabletopgeeks.com/all-new-step-by-step-painting-guide/ Let me know if you have any further questions!


Update!

Today I reorganized some boxes of stuff and dusted off a shelf. Seeya!


P.S.: Here's some pictures of stuff too.

Squad#1:


Squad#2:


Command Squad (WIP):


Flag (WIP):


Examples of DKOK dudes a bit more close up:



An Imperial Fists Veteran I did as a test mini for a possibly upcoming army:



And a new picture of the Chimera:


This thing really is like nothing I painted before. Highly interesting.

Anyhoo, I hope you like everything so far. C&C welcome as always.

@HF Izanagi: Cheers. The Chimera can be bought at maelstrom games. Price is a little steep but the quality is unmatched and yes, it's a commission.

@Moltar: Thank you. There will be a base but I left it off the base for now so I can reach some parts of the model better while painting.

@MajorTom11: Well, the Khorne army has been almost done for about six months. :p The chimera was painted to this point over a week ago. The DKOK and the IF were painted in that week, yeah.

@Arakasi: No problem; I've crammed quite a lot of stuff into that tutorial. Thanks for the compliment.

@crazypsyko666: Thanks. Glad to hear that. As for painting time; it wildly varies on my day-to-day form, wether or not I have a recipe for the mini already, if I'm batch painting or not and so on.

@vostok: Cheers. For metals, I use them old Citadel metallics. They work very nicely for me. Occationally, I use VGC Brassy Brass as well.



I just finished that piece of scenery for the command squad and some more painting:

't is indeed, Sir.

Apart from that resin scenic presentation base and the regular bases that go with it, I used their weathering pigments and razorwire. The quality seems good overal although there seem to be quite a lot of air bubbles on the backside of the presentation base (the "outer wall" with all the rubble). Due to the texture on that side they are hardly visible though and you won't look at the thing from that side anyway so it's not so bad. The pigment seems to be of good quality (fine, not grainy or anything). You get a little less per pot than in MIG's pots so I estimate it's about 17ml. The razor wire is of very good quality. Communicationswise, they're very nice chaps. I'm considering getting their ground glass/water effect set for snow. Not really happy with the stuff I'm currently using (GF9 snow) and I'm out of bicarbonate.

@Moltar: Yeah, so far I've only really gotten great results with bicarbonate.



So here's the first update in over two weeks. I really only have to blame myself for that, a massive amount of mismanagement of time and work and a general behavior of burying my head in the sand when facing throwbacks/stress/work overload. I'm also having to worry about some deadlines these days and just having too many projects on the desk at once. Well, you live, you learn.

Of course it's not like I've done nothing. I finished quite a few units of some more Warmaster Araby to get them reads for the Warmaster Euro GT the upcoming weekend. Yes, there is such a thing - which I find great. The guys really struggled to get this event to happen though and I'm glad that I could help one of them getting his minis done for the event.

So the next deadline to meet is about the Averlanders. Not a strict deadline by any means but I'd prefer to have the required stuff done until then so no news about the Chimera for now (sorry, guys).

Here's some WIP Knights of the Blazing Sun:







Here's a slightly converted Outriders champion with Hochland Longrifle. I'm really glad I waited for the Steam Tank kit to arrive instead of using the Hochland Longrifle from the Handgunners box):


That's all I got Fantasywise. No pictures of the additional Araby units because you've seen so many of those in here before and they aren't anything you haven't seen before (six bases of archers, nine bases of knights).


One of the last pictures of the Genestealers. I still had to finishe their bases (hadn't done any SM armour parts on them) before I could ship them, hence a little delay.



Here's a first WIP shot of another side project - a squad of Harlequins. The colours are the choice of the client.



Apart from all that, the DKOK guys got their company markings (fiddliest decals since I stopped doing scale modelling) and got sealed.

I'll keep the updates coming more frequently now. Sorry about all the terrible delays. Anyway, I hope you like everything so far. See you soon!

@MajorTom11: Thank you!

@Doots: See above.

@neil101: Thanks very much.



A little update on the knights - they're finished:






I hope you like them. I'll probably add some glossy finish on the horse bardings to see if it fits.



Apart from that, I made loads of pictures of finished Space Hulk and Khorne Stuff!









For the full number of shots, please have a look at my Chaos Space Marines Gallery.




For the final Space Hulk pictures, have a look at this gallery: Space Hulk.
(love these buggers. ;-) )

I hope you like everything. See you soon! (C&C welcome as always of course)

@GreyDeathOne: Thanks, I will.


Update!



Alrighty, here's a little update on the Harlequins and an army shot of the Khornies:







More and bigger army shots in my CSM gallery.



Little Update on the chimera:






Oh, and here's some pictures of the latest Araby dudes:







Empire army shots (whole army looking straight into the Arabyian Sun I suppose):







Oh, there's more army shots in my Empire (Averland) gallery too.

Hope you like the piccies and the added red parts on the Chimaera. I originally thought of purple for that but I think red works better but please let me know if you think that purple would be more fitting. So basically C&C is welcome.

@ChronoTrigger: Thanks.

@MajorTom11: Cheers. I received your messages; thanks for the in-depth info and I'm looking forward to seeing the shipment in person.



Another little update on the Chimera:





C&C welcome

Little update on the Empire:


Them's the new guys, a.k.a. "Second batch":
.) Head Engineer on foot
.) Sigmarite Priest
.) 10 Archers
.) 10 Swordsmen
.) 10 Handgunners
.) 5 Outriders
.) Steamtank
.) Mortar


In the background you can see my snazzy new painting rack. Got the biggest they had and still had to keep my old rack for "backup paints".

That's it for now, seeya!

@MajorTom11: Thanks.

@vent: hehehe, cheers.


Little update - Outriders finished:






I also did as much as I could on the black and yellow uniforms on the rest of the dudes- I try to get as much done as possible on the whole bunch but once I notice that I'm getting annoyed with doing the same thing over and over, I continue painting one single unit (if that makes sense). That way, the overall workload should be reduced with time.

@Empchild: Cheers!




So these are the units I'm currently working on mainly. Trying to get these guys out of the way quickly.





They don't look like much yet but I'm kinda proceeding.

Update:












Hope you like'em. C&C welcome as always. :-)

@Alpharius: Thanks. (It's not an army from Nuln )

@Tmonster: Fantasy's a great game and personally, I enjoy painting WHFB armies very much.

@iheartlargeblasttemplates: Cheers!

@MajorTom11: Yeah, I was in quite a hurry when doing the shields. You're right about the unfortunate dipping look. maybe I'll fix them later on when I do the rest of the Empire dudes.



But now it's time for a new sci-fi project and again it is set in the grimdark future of the 41st millenium!

Here's a testmini that's still a little WIP:



I have no idea what went wrong with the lighting on this one. Some days that just happens. Anyway, stay tuned for more of his brethen and some dudes to fight them!

@MajorTom11: Yeah, thanks, that's more like it. I didn't want to fiddle around too much with the picture because I wanted to get your opinion on it without it looking too "processed". Thanks for the piccie though, you really neatened it up!

@Alpharius: They're from Averland.



Better picture along with a Magus (guess how psyched I am to get the chance to paint this venerable sculpt ):



Hope you like them!

@MajorTom11: Thanks (I guess. ).

@Savnock: Cheers!


Here's a little preview shot of the rest of the 4th generation Hybrids:

@Vitriuvian XVII: Thanks. and welcome on board.



Update:


I plan to finish these by Sunday at the latest, hope to finish them until Friday, expect to finish them by Saturday. :p

You scare me. Mere seconds after the update you manage to reply already. Got your first mail, only now noticed your second one. Planned to do slightly different clothing anyway, will add the white armour to some of them as well.

@Alpharius: Thanks.

@MajorTom11: Still, even for the little notification thing you're fast.


Alright, here's a little update on the colour scheme:

@MajorTom11: Perfectly fine to work with, cheers. There were a few tiny little things to clean up on the Terminators and the Hybrid with the Bolt Pistol needs the pistol muzzle drilled out but that's really minor stuff. I was also a bit worried about the skin on the fat guy but I think it'll work out fine.

@Alpharius: Thanks! As for the flesh - it's basically one very light basecoat followed by a mix of heavy washes and lighter washes lateron. Due to the fact that I use different recipies for skin on each army or character I do, a case-specific description isn't necessary I think. You can look the way I paint flesh up in my Step-by-Step Painting Guides in which I describe the whole procedure in detail:

Dark Elf (Steps 3 and 11)
http://sigur.tabletopgeeks.com/dark-elf-black-guard-musician-step-by-step/

Space Marine (Step 16)
http://sigur.tabletopgeeks.com/all-new-step-by-step-painting-guide/



As for the Hybrids - Update:




Hope you like them.

@MajorTom: Thanks. Yup, scarves will be done soon, no worries. I was thinking of keeping them mainly purple-ish but with different hues so on some guys it's going to be blueish purple, on others it's more of a deep purple, lighter purple on others and so on. Sounds okay to you that way?

By the way, if you like the pictures in here, feel free to have a look at Battle Brush Studios' Facebook page! I'd appreciate it.

@MajorTom11: Thanks. Yeah, the discworld minis are amazing. You can see that the sculptors really tried to get the characters right and that they understood that if they mess up they'll summon the wrath of thousands. Instead, they did perfect figurines. I really enjoyed painting them.

@tallmantim: Thanks muchly. The Chimera model itself is a beauty.



So, the 4th generation (sans "Fatty" on whom I'm redoing the skin from scratch to make him look right) is finished:










Hope you like them. Next up: 3rd generation Hybrids, where things get a little more alien.

@neil101: To me, there's no other possible colour scheme for those. Thanks.

@MajorTom11: Thank you. I thought of going for a similar scheme as on the Magus except for the Meltagun guy who gets white armour and different colours on shirt and trousers to make him look more along the lines of the other guys in white armour. Sure, you'll get the recipe on the bases. Apart from all of that, I noticed that I still hadn't painted the Tyranid helperling's claws black - that's fixed now.

@MajorTom11: Thanks for you e-mail. Fixed the belt buckle on that one guy you mentioned. it's brassy now. Props from all over the interwebz for your conversion skills.


The weekend has been rather eventful (friday and saturday at least. Sunday I wasn't able to do anything) so the first WIPs of the 3rd generation Hybrids are a little late:





Not all that much to say about these. I hope to finish them tonight. C&C welcome!

@Baiyuan: Besten Dank!

@MajorTom11: Ah, alright. What do you think of that: I'll change the shoulder armour on the guy with the metal armour but will keep the shoulderpad the way it is on the guy with the white armour, okay? I just found the fourth 3rd generationer just an hour ago or so; guess he got left out because I had to prime his friends and he came primed already so I guess that's why I had forgotten about him. At the moment I read your reply, I actually had the guy and the 2nd generation hybrids in the work already because I had gotten bored with the 3rd genners. :p You can see that you've put much work into that second melta guy; he looks seriously badass with that pose, the tilted head and the combination of arc-y thing over the back of his head and the respirator piece.

Here's some quick pictures for skin comparison:


...and a first WIP of the second Meltaguy:



It's still a bit hard to spot the difference between the skintones in the picture; it comes out much clearer in real life how the 4th genners' skin looks much more human while the 3rd genners clearly have a more purple-ish tint. Hope you like them!

@GreyDeathOne: Thanks.

@Some_Call_Me_Tim?: Hey there, thanks for the comment and for remembering me. In fact, I started posting pictures on Warseer basically the day it reopened after The Fall, and I'm very sure that I posted pictures of my minis on Portent as well. I must have started posting pictures on there just shortly before The Fall though which makes that probably about 7 years ago I suppose. Many thanks for the compliments though.

@MajorTom11: Cheers. I have to admit that I missed the gradual change and that you want the carapace on later generations to be very pale in colour compared to the earlier ones just until two posts back or so, so I'll have to redo the third arms on the 3rd genners a bit I guess. The flesh should be okay as it's pretty pale and close to the rest of their skin but the carapace came out pretty dark-purplish-blue already. But it's nice that you wrapped that up in "I have a feeling this may be the one of the greatest successes".

Here's probably the last update for tonight:



The second Meltagun dude in the far left is a very cool conversion. That thing arching over the back of his head almost makes him look like he's got a topknot which makes for insta-coolness.

Thanks everybody!


Okay, here's a little update. The 3rd Generation finally is as good as finished now:



...and the 2nd generation is WIP:



Hrm. Not much to say. I picked up my Marienburger Landship up from the GW store but I'm afraid I won't get to work on it any time soon, otherwise some people will get real angry at me unless I finish some commission jobs quickly. :p