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You may be in a rut but George is still spectacular!

Prince on Griffon looks stunning. If I was to suggest one thing, there is something about the pennant and cloak that look a bit plain in comparison to the rest - I suspect it might take freehand to remedy though...

Yeah you're probably right.

I'm very inexperienced when it comes to freehand, and there is a fair amount of folding on the pennant and cloak that would make it a bit harder, so it's probably not something I want to try on this model!

I've got the plastic 30k heroes models ready to prime and will paint up in Sons of Horus colours, I think their cloaks would be suitable practice areas for some freehand eyes of Horus!

Thanks for the love all. Beginning to find my groove and knocking out some more Genestealer Cultists.

Hello

So as above, am taking a break from elves for now and getting back on the genestealer cult bandwagon. My gaming group are planning an apocalypse game when lockdown ends that will be nids and GSC vs Chaos and Dark Eldar. This has given me a fair amount of motivation to push on with more cultists. Rightly or wrongly I started off with a character I have been looking forward to painting a lot!




Next up, some more neophyte special weapons and then a Leman Russ.

She looks cool, good use of the orange. Will the Russ be orange and white too?

Nope! My brood brothers are blue and grey (same grey as on the cultists) with orange cult markings to show the true allegiance.

On that note, here's the Russ all finished. Sorry for not posting WIP pictures, work and baby taking up a lot of my free time. Glad to get this done as the camo was rather a pain. Now I will need to do it for all the BB tanks too

Orange is a great colour for GSC. It just works.

Great job on the Russ, I can imagine the camo was a drag. Surely the joy of an asymmetric force like GSC is that each vehicle can be different? You could easily go with white, blue, grey or black, but a whole bunch of tanks in that camo would look super cool!

That's true, they wouldn't all need the exact same camo scheme if i use the same colours... will have to decide when I get more tanks to paint!

I've tried to write this post 3 times now but for various reasons I've lost it the last 2 times, so here's the summarised version:

Painted the start of my acolyte bomb, 5 down, many more to go:





Also started some allied tyranids, probably not going to be a standalone force and probably big monster focused but both of those are subject to change! Here's the very early WIP:



Still plenty to work on for this guy, but happy with the progress so far.
More detailed thoughts about these maybe later!

A bit more progress. I've blocked out most of the orange markings. Now to layer over them to brighten the orange up and probably chop back into them with black to diffuse the orange a bit more in other places. Black still needs highlighting.

Monsieur le Carnifex is complete!

A few lessons were learned with this:

1) Sub-assemblies would make big gribblies easier to paint
2) Skeleton horde is an easy base coat for the bone compared to 3 layers of Vallejo bone white
3) Orange is still only slightly easier than yellow
4) I can probably do this scheme on hordes of the small bugs with relative ease...




Next up is the swarmlord and his arms and head have been finished. I wish I hadn't glued the torso to the legs/tail as that would be easier to paint seperate but at least these bits were sub assemblies.

Looking really good! Those hybrids are properly creepy.

Thanks Kyoto!

Smashed out the swarmlord. I am enjoying how easy and satisfying this scheme is to paint. It's been described as Halloween themed which wasn't intentional but I have no problems with! Spooky bugs ahoy!





Next up, some detachment filling heavy weapons dudes. Then back to bugs I suspect.

Been a bit of a while since I last posted an update but I've still been painting away.

Some has just been models smashed out to a basic table top standard so not worth posting here, so no pictures of the Brood Brother heavy weapon team or a 10 man Eldar Guardian squad.

But i did more recently paint a couple of things that I am more happy with. The first being the two Chaos Marines from Blackstone Fortress:



I'm really happy with how the bases came out, it's an adaptation of the Midwinter Minis basing scheme. Pretty easy in the end.

I've also managed to finish a model that has sat in my drawer for well over a year unbuilt, Artel W's Warseer, back from before he got a cease and desist! Lovely model, incredibly detailed and rather a challenge for someone of my abilities, but I am happy with how it came out. A couple of WIP shots that I actually remembered to take:




And then the final thing:

The BSF marines came out great! So did the bases, what adaptation to the midwinter minis tutorial did you do? I like how bright you got them and incorporated the debris too.

The warserr is a great model and the colour palette works really well too.

Another week, another new project for this hobby butterfly. This time it's some gobbos!

Why gobbos? Well my better half has started painting models during lockdown cos she was getting a bit of cabin fever. She obviously picked the Daughters of Khaine so i decided some greenskins would make interesting opponents.

First up, squigs!





Then obviously they need a brave and noble leader to guide them into glorious combat!




Great fun models to paint. Will do the second 5 squigs as the boingrots I suspect.

3 half painted nid warriors to finish first though.

Great squigs, the big one reminds me of Slimer, which is always fun

I've been fairly productive throughout lockdown in terms of painting output, well for me at least. But that painting has been rather unfocused and split over a number of projects. This has meant that I have made no discernable progress in any of my ongoing projects. To counter that, I am going to try to primarily focus on one large project at a time. No doubt I will have regular diversions because like a lot of hobbyists I have a butterfly brain, but if I can keep coming back to one project I think that will help but keep this thread and myself somewhat focused.

So I am going to look to focus my attentions on my burgeoning Cothique themed High Elf army for 9th Age. First things first, what I need to work out what I actually have in stock and how much has been painted:

Lords and Heroes:
Lord on Griffon 1/1
Battle standard bearer 0/1
Mages on foot 0/2
Caradryan 0/1
Mounted Mage 0/1
Sea Helm 0/1

Core:
Sea Guard Unit A 18/24(ish)
Sea Guard Unit B 0/24(ish)
Spearmen 0/20
Archers Unit A 0/20
Archers Unit B 0/21
Silver Helms 0/16
Reavers 0/10

Specials and Rares:
Swordmasters 20/28(ish)
White Lions 0/20
Chariots 0/2
White Lion Chariots 0/2
Dragon Princes 0/8
Bolt Throwers 1/3
Skycutter 0/1


I think that is everything and is a rather scary backlog. I am not quite sure how many Sea Guard and Swordmasters I have as I bought a fair few when they were cheaply available on eBay. Will need to dig them out the loft to check!

Well that's the easy part done, now to get them all painted!

So I forgot to post these but here are the 6 latest Sea Guard that took my unit to 18/24 painted, used more Cothique inspired Sea Green in this 6 than the previous 12 and am liking it. I will need to go back and change the original 12...eventually.



I've also fully catalogued my backlog of High Elves and *cough* added in the most recent purchases...

Lords and Heroes:
Lords on Griffons 1/2
Battle standard bearer 0/1
Mages on foot 0/2
Caradryan 0/1
Mounted Mage 0/1
Sea Helm 0/1

Core:
Sea Guard Unit A 18/24
Sea Guard Unit B 0/30
Spearmen 0/36
Archers Unit A 0/20
Archers Unit B 0/21
Silver Helms 0/16
Reavers 0/10

Specials and Rares:
Swordmasters 20/32
White Lions 0/20
Chariots 0/2
White Lion Chariots 0/2
Dragon Princes 0/13
Bolt Throwers 1/3
Skycutter 0/1
Eagles 0/2

Welp. Better get painting. I've started the last 6 of the first unit of Sea Guard and have primed 10 of the White Lions to start after that. Wish me luck!

I did also paint up 5 Boingrot Bounderz as they were half painted and means i now have no unpainted Gitz.





Will need to decide what to get next for these guys...after i have painted more elves that is!

Great work on the grots, they look a really fun unit! The Sea Guard came out great too!

Hi All,

Quick post to show last addition to the Shore Garrison of Cothque, the start of my unit of White Lions.



Fluff wise, I am envisaging these as Cothique Huntsmen who are the recipients of White Lion cloaks from Chrace after they aided in the blockade of Chracian ports by Vampire Coast pirates. Since I also have a couple of White Lion Chariots to paint, I think they will also have gifted a breeding pair of lions too. What is slightly less easy to explain will be Dragon Princes, so any suggestions are gratefully accepted!

Like a lot of hobbyists, my backlog (especially High Elves and Eldar) has gotten way out of hand. So I noticed the following system from JoeRugby on his (excellent) P&M blog.



I like this because it both gameifies clearing the backlog and also doesn't completely prevent new purchases (being realistic, I am going to buy things!) So I am going to give this a go starting with the last week's activities and purchases:

Starting points: 0
Purchases made: -30 (An Ork Trukk)
Progress made: 34 (5 White Lions, plus 10 Necron Warriors Built as well as the 9 models from Zarbag's Gitz)
Closing balance: 4 (a start is a start)

So a week later and I have completed another 5 White Lions (or Huntselves of Cothique as I am calling them). This time the command group have been included so they are beginning to look like a proper unit. I made a few errors on the banner that I am not 100% happy with but I don't really want to strip it and start again...





Next up will be the half finished 6 Sea Guard to bring that up to a unit of 24.

I've also changed the scoring/points system I lifted from JoeRugby so that it is slightly simpler and more aligned with my objectives. So, fully completing a model will award the following points (which are doubled if the model was bought less than a month before completion):

Standard infantry: 1 Point
Large Infantry/Beasts/Bikes etc: 2 Points
Small Monsters/Vehicles: 5 Points
Large Monsters/Vehicles: 7 Points

To purchase a new model costs the following:

Standard infantry: 3 Points
Large Infantry/Beasts/Bikes etc: 6 Points
Small Monsters/Vehicles: 15 Points
Large Monsters/Vehicles: 21 Points


Redoing my opening balance (being the purchase of the Ork Trukk - 21 points and the completion of 5 White Lions) starts me off at -16. Welp.

Starting points: -16
Purchases made: 0 (good boy)
Progress made: 5 (5 additional white lions)
Closing balance: -11

Not had the chance to take photos but I managed to finish off 6 more Sea Guard to get the unit of 24 done.

Also managed to get a game of 40k 9th Ed played for the first time this edition. 25pl crusade game, my GSC vs my mate's necrons. Took some pictures so will try to post a full report soon, but was a lot of fun and reignited the 40k enthusiasm.

That meant today we have planned another game, this time 2v2. My hive fleet Lusca Nids will be joined by 25 PL of gaunts to go up against 25PL each of death guard and alpha legion. Should be fun! Because of this, I needed to paint up 2 more genestealers to round out my unit from 8 to 10. So that leaves the scoreboard as follows:

Starting points: -11
Purchases: 0
Completed models: 8 (6 sea guard and 2 stealers)
Closing balance: -3

So I am getting close to breaking even...which is probably a good thing as I have a feeling I will want to expand my nids after todays game!

Been rather too busy to post any updates sadly, I wanted to do battle reports for both the battles as they were good fun if not tactical master classes but not had chance.

I have done a bit of painting however and smashed out a second ridgerunner. Great models and hopefully a unit of two works better than a single one! Will get a third eventually but probably won't go for the full 9!





And, since I bought this less than a month a go, I get double painting points, lucky me!

Starting points: -3
Purchases made: 0
Completed models: 10 (2 x 5 pts for the ridgerunner)
Closing balance: 7

Woohoo I am back in the black! Going to try to keep these good habits up so that I save up the points I need to buy the next purchase, which is currently either zoanthropes or raveners...

Good to be back in the black! The ridge runner looks really cool, very nice off white you’ve chosen and the orange works really well with it too!

Thanks Gobert

So after buying the Indomitus set, I have been trying to decide on a chapter for the marines. I was going to go for a homebrew chapter but couldn't settle on a paint scheme i enjoyed. Instead, the number of chainswords made Flesh Tearers seem the appropriate choice. But could I paint them?

Not wanting to ruin the assault intercessors, I found 5 intercessors I had put together from another abandoned Kill Team project. These combine parts from the easy to build and multipart intercessor kits hence the variation in the shoulder pads. Also added in a powerfist from an Assault on Black Reach terminator to the sergeant. Here is the WIP so far, they've been rather fun to paint so far:

Good start, I like the bright highlights on the one on the right, what colours did you use?

Cheers!

The red is less bright in real life. I have finished pretty much everything on the bodies now. Tidied up highlights and done the basing and weathered up the boots.



So just need to paint up the heads, backpacks and remaining shoulder pads, then do decals and weathering and they'll be done.

Hiya,

So I have done all the painting on the Flesh Tearers intercessor squad. I am very happy with how these have turned out, but the chapter decals I got from chapter customizer were not as easy to use as I would have liked. I've used GW decals before with no problem so was expecting similar but these were too thick while the white was translucent. I think I am going to invest in some 3D printed chapter badges instead, but that will have to wait until RL has settled down.



So since I am moving house, I have the vast majority of my unpainted minis packed away which is restricting what I can paint. With that said, I found two unfinished Warriors of Chaos that I finished off in my metallic blue and rusted metal scheme:



The shields have photographed as a bit more flat and one coloured than i think they are in real life but hey ho.

I also managed to get done something I've been meaning to paint for a while, a White Lion Chariot for my Cothique High Elves army. This was an ebay rescue so it was a bit of a pain to paint assembled rather than the sub-assemblies I would have preferred, but I am still happy with how it came out even if it isn't perhaps as good as I could have made it.





That leaves me with the following tally:

Starting points: 7
Purchases made: 0
Completed models: 7 (2 x Chaos Warriors and 5pts for the Chariot)
Closing balance: 14